A hypothesis

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• vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As a non autistic Linux user since I was 14, I concur.

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  • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Who’re you kidding

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  • Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same. Got a pc at 13 and my windows didn’t last a whole year

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  • confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All the professionals say I’m not even a little autistic and I installed RedHat 5.2 on a cobbled together desktop when I was 14.

    Disclaimer: I have been asked if I was autistic when flirting at bars though.

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• anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I started on Apple 2 then Macs. Then used my graduation money to build a PC with just released Windows 98, Monster Voodoo video card a few months later (off of eBay no less).

  Gamed and worked through my design degree on windows before switching back to Mac when it went Intel, and because I was working in web development and l dealing with Linux servers all day, but also needed Photoshop and layer Sketch (a nice vector UI design tool) and later as I ditched Adobe in my own company, Pixelmator (a nice Photoshop replacement).

  I know a little Vi, I know a bit about spinning up servers and Ruby on Rails, pretty comfortable with a terminal/cli, have a few RPis around the house, and I grew up on and still use Macs.

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• wildsir@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Me too! I distrohopped like hell back then, I remember bragging to my friends that I installed Arch (btw)

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• Quokka@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I grew up with DOS.

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  • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember running QEMM because “640k should be enough for anyone”.

    Feeling like a hacker for writing a batch file that automatically started Windows from boot up.

    Good times.

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  • Fallofturkey@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    286 in the house, … like literally in the center of the house, but we did have like a gui program called ezmenu. Still had to launch a lot of programs/games from directories though

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t forget desqview. Best multitasking ever. One of my PCs could run 3 nodes of my BBS and a working session.

    Or GEOS. An os-thingie with mouse and shit 😁

    Also don’t forget OS/2. Which really was great compared to the first windows…

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  C-64 -> DOS (at school) -> Unix (at uni) -> Every Windows from 3.1 to Win10 including some NT -> Linux/Win10

  That pretty much dates me, with that huge stretch of time.

  Messed around with Linux a few times on and off (Mandrake was first), never took the plunge until recently where it's now my primary. And it's not Arch.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How about the tech skills of kids who actually built their first computer?

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• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s with Lemmy and someone jumping into every thread like “LINUX IS MY MASTER!”

  I constantly playing whack a mole and blocking all the Linux cultists communities

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  • jim3692@discuss.online ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are there enough non-Linux Lemmy users to form a basketball team?

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• sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I built by first PC when I was 12, I guess I’m autistic.

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• AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  First computer in my family’s home was a shitty Macintosh Performa, pretty sure it was running 7.x. Probably the biggest impact that had was growing up a Marathon child, rather than a Doom one. Hexen on the N64, but otherwise didn’t play Doom til later teen years.

  But I also had extensive time on grand parent’s Windows 98 machine. Monkey Island series, The Sims, Final Fantasy VII, bunch of other games.

  I’ve had elementary and middle school classes on both Macs and Windows machines, but didn’t gain any real typing skills until I used a Web TV device to access my first MSN chatrooms. Gained more typing speed in one day in chat than an entire quarter of typing classes.

  First distro was Ubuntu 10.04. Had an interest in web design at the time, and had spent most of the years prior on a Windows XP desktop, then a Windows 7 one. Was more of an Unreal Tournament kid, again didn’t try Quake 3 Arena until my twenties but I do prefer the latter now.

  Every version of Windows after 7 feels weird and unfamiliar to me. I feel like I have to shower on the rare occasions when I do use a W10 telemetry machine. Have never had enough time to become familiar with any version of OS X, and iOS is so unfamiliar to me that I end up ragequitting those devices within minutes of trying to use them.

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• Hegar@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Any correlation would likely be related to socio-economic status ie class. Macs were always more expensive, that's going to skew wealthier, which has way more impact on developement and learning than which OS you used as a kid.

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• fleebleneeble@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mac as a kid, Windows for most of my life so far, Linux as a couple years now. I graduated a tech bootcamp with some good certs for DevOps/Cybersecurity, but they’re expiring soon because the area I live has zero job openings and I completed the whole thing right as the AI “boom” was starting. Ugh

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  • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I hear you. The IT industry has become a bloodbath like everything else.

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s still not what I would call common, but if you’re well credentialed, you might be able to get remote work.

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• GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Also Apple IIe to start then Power Mac briefly, thanks to school. Later at home Windows 3.1 - Windows 7 I think, Back to OS X, Back to Win 10, Win 11, terror and enlightenment, now Linux.

  Knowing how awesome a computer could be with the Power Mac made me demand more from a Windows machine, and then understand early on the disappointment with Windows that would last most of my life.

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  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    terror and enlightenment, now Linux.

    As Bhuddism teaches, suffering is the human experience. Acceptance of this is necessary to reach nirvana.

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    • GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, it’s really more that pain is part of the human experience. Suffering is our reaction to the pain. We don’t have to suffer when we experience inevitable pain if we are enlightened.

      In context: Using Windows 11 is pain. Continuing to use it by choice is suffering. Accepting Linux into your heart and treating the inevitable tweaks like no big deal is enlightenment.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My first machine was an Apple 2e. The first IBM machine I used was on DOS. I don’t think I even saw Windows until Windows 95.

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