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I was 18. How about you? 🤓

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early 20s, in the mid90s, i think. RedHat on an Amiga, good times 😀
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I believe I was 14 at the time. Good experience.
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24 when i first tried it, switched completely at 29
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Played around with it in my early teens on a bootable usb stick. Then installed it on an old macbook.
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I first tried Linux when I was probably 14 but didn't start using it as a daily driver until 18. The more important question imo is what year did you start using Linux as back in the 90s and early 2000s it was a lot harder to get working. Now it's easier to install and setup Linux than windows. From my experience today Linux just works on most hardware. Windows takes a while to get all the drivers you need.
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16 at school, a long time ago... 1999, It was kind of hard
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I was 44, and I started out with Yellowdog Linux running on a Motorola Starmax (a Mac clone)
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I was 11, using the crostini container on my Chromebook
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about 30. I downloaded a set of diskette images at my work. We were looking for a Unix to run on PCs (after SCO). We ended up setting up Linux on a homebuilt PC server and using it for an Internet gateway.
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15 when I went full time, but I've been trying it as soon as I was 14
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I was 24 and it was one of my best decisions in life ever!
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19, my first Ubuntu was Feisty Fawn. (7.04)

And I felt like a pro writing a shell script to mount my external drive...😁

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I want to say 15, but I didn't like my first experience with it. A year later I started using Ubuntu 6.06 and loved it.
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first tried it when I was around 10 or so? ended up daily driving it at 17
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I started using Linux in 1996.

I was using Solaris & IRIX before that.

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I think I was 19 or 20. Also learned what a “winmodem” was pretty disappointingly.
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12 (as my first daily driver)
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12 or 13, with a weirdly rebranded RedHat (6.*, presumedly)
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32 at the time.
Granted it was pre-Ubuntu and pre-Fedora.
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16. Ubuntu gets a lot of shit now, but it's such an improvement over Windows (During that time, I didn't experience other distros) that I can't help but have a soft spot for it.
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five or six the first time i saw a distro. That was fedora. Daily use since 12 with ubuntu (btw now its arch)

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