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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Hey! πŸ™‹ I'm an autistic person (diagnosed at age 3). I grew up using Mac computers mostly, because my father preferred them for his work. Although I would encounter Windows a lot when I was at school as well. However, I didn't really know how to use Windows until I started seeing videos on YouTube about it (such as this one). This was when I was around 10. So I started experimenting with different editions of it (Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows XP, etc.) via a pirated copy of Parallels Desktop. I also found out about Linux, and toyed with Ubuntu with a bit via Parallels. I found it fun, and thus considered the idea of installing Linux properly onto my Macbook. Unfortunately, the trackpad support wasn't there. So for my 11th birthday, I asked for a "Windows laptop", and immediately after getting it, I set up some dual-boot with Windows 10 and some fork of Ubuntu called "Pinguy OS". (I spent way too much time looking at DistroWatch.) Then, I distro-hopped for a bit until I finally settled on Void Linux when I was 13. I'm now 18 and am running Void full-time on my current laptop, it doesn't even have a Windows partition. :)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Correlation does not imply causation though...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Where does TRS-80 fit into this study?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I installed my first Linux distro in my country's equivalent of high school, probably 17 years old or so. It was just Ubuntu. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ Not very difficult. Just pop in the CD/USB and follow the installation wizard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Grew up on Mac (Chuck Yeager game anyone?).

DOS & Win3.1 later. QBasic for first language. Later VB, ew.

Linux sporadically throughout.

Use Linux largely for side projects but unfortunately all my jobs have me stuck on Windows during the day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Chuck Yeager's air combat? I played that on PC

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bought Red Hat Linux in a store from my allowance when I was 11 or 12. We had no internet at home back then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Same, though I think I also picked up SUSE and slackware around the same time

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

My first memory with a computer was playing (more like trying to play) Microsoft flight simulator 1.0 on a Macintosh when I was around 8-9. The thing that looks like that:

https://cdn.mobygames.com/screenshots/2030596-microsoft-flight-simulator-macintosh-closeup-of-cessna.png

I only started using Linux when installed dual boot Ubuntu on the family computer around 14-15.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Wow that is awesome! I have big nostalgia for the early B&W Macs as well, having played on a Mac Classic my uncle had when I was a kid. He actually gave me that computer years ago and it’s still in my basement collecting dust. I powered it up a few years ago and it still worked but then promptly powered it down and put it away. I need to go through it and recap it. Hopefully there aren’t any disastrous leaks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My first MS flight simulator was 4, the graphics were similar, but in VGA

My first game was probably 1944 or moon buggy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Those beautiful graphics. That dithering though!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

My dad had this flight sim on his old PC! That internal speaker and the BW graphics... another one of those games was the keyboard destroyer decathlon.

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