How old I am, did you all think? (Been in the forum for a few months now 
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Tomorrow, I will be exactly 16 and a half!
I first used Linux desktop briefly(maybe a couple of weeks) and without knowledge in 2018, when my New Dell laptop came with Ubuntu Preinstalled, and the first thing I did was ask my father to install Windows. I had just brought it for the sole purpose of school stuff, and Ubuntu didn’t have MS Office as required in our courses!
Back then, I used Windows 10 in my 4Gb RAM new Dell, and it just ran like crap; I couldn’t even do basic multitasking like running Word and a browser.
It was my 9th grade(2019), I learned some basics of computers, about RAM(I didn’t even know about all that), GPUs, Windows 7(that’s what my school still taught at the time) 
This was when I started to get interested in computers; I learned to change many settings in Windows, installed some non-Microsoft Store games, and all that.
I still had no idea that Linux existed
Then, I came across Bluestacks and running android apps in Windows, but you know I just had 4Gb ram, and I wouldn’t even launch.
Like that, I came across Prime OS(Android x86 derivative), it was indeed great, and I had just dual-booted for the first time! But Prime OS had ceased its development, and all those Android x86 and derivatives were either abandoned projects or simply didn’t work on my hardware.
(I had only managed to install Prime OS successfully!)
Then I learned about hypervisors and installing any operating system without compatibility issues(*My objective was to install Android x86 without problems *), but you know, sluggish Windows again!
Then I came across some articles about Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors, and guess what? GNU/Linux had the best Type 1 VMs (It was about our own Virt Manager!).
I learned that combined with Linux’s better resource usage and better opensource VM software, I could get an almost bare-metal experience, and guess what Linux just blew away my mind 
just with 4Gb of RAM!
I first installed Linux maybe sometime in August/September 2019.
I started of with Ubuntu, stayed with it for 3-4 months. I was a bit reluctant to install other distros at first, though I was checking them out in VMs.
You know I was just new to Partitions tables, GPT & MBR, BIOS, boot loaders and all that.
Gradually I switched from MBR to GPT, and UEFI booting just simply made dual-booting a ton easier.
And to this date, I haven’t faced any dual-booting issue.
I was still dependent on Windows for my school stuff, so I had to at last upgrade my ram to 12Gb, though Linux just worked fine.
From this year onwards in my 11th grade, I haven’t opted for Computer in my school; it was as dull as Windows. Now I barely use Windows; I have kept it on my drive just in case.
In my past two years with Linux and almost 10+ months with Garuda Linux, I learned several new stuff which I didn’t know existed inside the closed boundaries of the Windows corporate World.
Today I have tried almost all major Linux Distros on my same Dell Laptop’s drive.
From,
Ubuntu(and most of its derivatives)
Manjaro
Fedora
openSUSE
Mageia & Mandrake Linux
Puppy Linux
Void
rlxOS
Solus
and still trying out.
and all major DEs: KDE, Gnome, XFCE, Mate, Budgie, Cinnamon, LXQT, Deepin, UKUI, Enlightenment
& Awesome WM
But ever since I tried out Garuda(10+ months ago), it has been there on sda1!
The best thing about Linux is you learn something new every day!
Actually, I was thinking of creating a post like this and getting to know each other.
If you think about it, isn’t it quite weird that after all this time knowing each other in this community, yet we don’t know each other
