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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.
“discluded”
🤣
De-un-cluded even
I thought so too, but turns out it is a word, even if it might be misused here: …stackexchange.com/…/is-disclude-a-word-and-what-…
We do not wish to exclude the population because it would preclude comparative analysis, but we wish to disclude them from this study in order to conclude the initial hypothesis.
How about the tech skills of kids who actually built their first computer?
I built by first PC when I was 12, I guess I’m autistic.
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.
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.
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
I hear you. The IT industry has become a bloodbath like everything else.
It’s still not what I would call common, but if you’re well credentialed, you might be able to get remote work.
A flawed hypothesis. LOGO and Hypercard > Lotus notes.
“Discluded”?
Thank you! This meme is reposted often, and that non-word always jumps out at me.
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
Are there enough non-Linux Lemmy users to form a basketball team?
I got into programming on a TRS-80 clone. Everything you needed to know to program it was contained in a little 150 page book that came with it.
To program the Mac, you needed a whole bookshelf of books.
I installed Linux for the first time at 14.
13/14 for me. Thinkpad 600 😎
Its nice to know im not the only Linux kid. It felt so weird, most of my friends didn’t even know what Android was. It sucks growing up tech savvy when most people call themselves nerds after discovering “air drop”.
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.
terror and enlightenment, now Linux.
As Bhuddism teaches, suffering is the human experience. Acceptance of this is necessary to reach nirvana.
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.
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.
In my region, people who grew up with mac are more likely to finish higher class school than people who grew up using windows.
But not because they use mac but because they tend to have richer parents…
For some reason, Eternity shows this image until I clicked on the post lol
Yep! Encountered this bug once before.
Me too! I distrohopped like hell back then, I remember bragging to my friends that I installed Arch (btw)
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.
Quokka@quokk.au 2 months ago
I grew up with DOS.
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 2 months 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.
Fallofturkey@lemmy.world 2 months 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
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 months 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…