I started using computers in 1982 at my dad's company. He had bought an IBM computer running CP/M. In short: he and the computer did not get along. I however found it fascinating.

My first self-owned pc was a Samsung XT (an SPC3000) that I bought in 1989 with a 40 MB hard drive running MS-DOS. I remember a mouse was optional in those days. I first learned about Linux in 1994; the first distribution I downloaded was Slackware, somewhere around 1996. This more or less put the fear of God into me, so to speak. Around the same time I got involved in a translation project for Uniplex, an Office suite for SCO Unix System V. I still have a copy on 12 5,25" floppy disks.

In 2007, I learned about Ubuntu. I installed it, played around with it and uninstalled it. I did the same with Knoppix and a few other distros. Linux was getting interesting, but could not possibly replace Windows or macOS at that time.

Since work more or less dictated me to work with Windows, I never came back to Linux until April 2020, when I got so fed up with Windows updates, that I swore never to touch it again. I'm now a very happy Linux Mint 19.3 user that hasn't looked back since.