Is the hypothesis that Windows being constantly broken forces you to learn how to fix it ? Because thatβs kinda what happened to me π
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Looking at the comments, it occurs to me that we're not a representative section of the online community.
Were literally people who went out of their way to not use a conventional/commercial tech product.
I wonder what the % of people on here is who have built a pc, used a raspberry pi or installed Linux compared to the outside world.
I would bet the number is extremely high. I've done all these things.
Hah, the joke's one you: some of us are too cheap for using a Raspberry Pi and instead use chinese Pi clones!
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I played education games on a Apple II in 1998; I was in the first grade.
Discluded? Are you sure you don't mean excounted?
I used MacOS for a bit, switched to Windows, then when I was 15 I installed Linux :3
Granted I do very much have autism
I used MS-DOS as a kid and installed Windows 98 when I was 12. Started to use Linux in my 20s.
Granted I am old.
Used DOS and an IBM Selectric II in highschool. Installed windows 3.1.1 in college. W95 at my first job. Upgraded to them all to W98, ME, 2000, 7, 8, 10, and 11
Installed Linux the first time with Unbuntu Warty Warthog. Had the CD mailed to me.
I still managed to fuck up GRUB today again.... because I'm very talented apparently.
Can you even call yourself a Linux user if you didn't fuck up GRUB a few times? π
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I suddenly vividly remember putting my momβs Chromebook into developer mode and installing crouton on it so I could play Minecraft.
I doubt there would be much difference. I was started on an old brick-style Mac before switching to PC and am now the most technical person in almost any group I enter. It's not as if Mac devices are entirely void of programmers and other technical users.
Yeah, Apple computers are disproportionately common at tech conferences and meetups.
I'm a backend dev and the last 3 companies I've worked for are exclusively apple only. It feels, to me, like apple took over US tech startups. Obviously pretty poor sample size.
I'm pretty old an have been working in IT for almost 20 years now. Back in the day in would be more like this "hey welcome to the team, here's your PC". Someone would point to a desktop with Windows (XP) on it. If your company was "good" at IT you would have roaming profiles, so you could use any desktop with your own profile. If you would get a laptop (usually if you did IT consultancy that would be the case) it would be some locked down version of Windows where you would not even have admin rights.
In one of my first jobs a colleague (developer) couldn't do his job because his pc was so slow and locked down. One day he came into the office with a CD-ROM that had Ubuntu on it. He just wiped the desktop and installed it. As a young office worker I was shocked! You can do that???
Yeah, we're Apple only as well, but that's largely because we didn't want to deal w/ the BS of the corporate images, and they only support Windows. I could probably argue a case for Linux, but we've been on Apple for years, so that would be an uphill battle.
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