I think a new beta version of Slackware was released recently.
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born in 1975
i'm old enough to have been one of the unfortunate owners of the atari game 'ET the extraterrestrial' that they ended up burying thousands of unsold cartridges in arizona someplace.
in 1984-85 i got to use an apple II to draw a picture by programming coordinates, i drew a simple Christmas tree and create image text of 'Merry Christmas'.
it was in a grade 5 computer class, been a loopy tech nerd ever since =-)
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Well, this thread had became so interesting that i am visiting it for everyday
and also shamelessly gave its link to some of my noob window user friends ,
And guess what, they now ask to me about how to install garuda in school, because now they know that i am a all time linux user and there is an OS named GNU/linux (this is one of the things which i didn't wanted to tell them, simply because i am a person who is always in his own world , i am a workoholic and a silent person and care about privacy that's why use garuda)
The most strange thing is they see me as an hacker now and i say "come on , not every linux users are programmers and hackers!"
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16 yo, slightly after I did also meet with Windows 95!
This was, if I remember well a Red Hat 4 or something similar. Thought Linux was not working as I did not find how to launch the GUI 
And BTW, I failed on Dry January day 1!
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I'm thirty-seven years old, but my Linux age is only one. 
When I was a kid, at my school we had a few old DOS machines with some 8-inch floppy games (Oregon Trail--the 1985 version, with "graphics" 
and my personal favorite game from that time, Zork--anyone remember that one?!).
My family's first PC at home had Windows 95 with more advanced games like Sim City 2000 and Doom! Back then, America Online would send you CDs in the mail for 100 minutes of free online time to try to get you to subscribe to their service. You'd get online over the phone line, and if someone picked up the phone you'd lose your internet connection. 
My life took me away from computers for a long time, but in late 2020 I started studying and taking classes to prepare for a mid-life career change into IT. An online class I was doing had a course on building computers, and a course on Linux (more of a crash-course in retrospect), and not two weeks later I built my first computer and installed my first distro, Linux Mint. Honestly I still think Cinnamon is a solid DE.
I came to Garuda because it has out-of-the-box the most beautiful, functional, and feature-rich Sway configuration out there (trust me, I have tried quite a few and spent many, many nights hunched over the keyboard hacking away at Sway config files trying to get a reasonable setup on some other distros), but as I've spent more time with the disto I've grown very enamored by Garuda's other unique characteristics.
Plus, this is far and away one of the most interesting forums I frequent! 
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Was no personal computer when I was 13 back in '71... 
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The first computer I used was a Macintosh with a black and white operating system. The first computer I bought with my own money was a first gen MacBook.
I've used GNOME on my iMac G3 and Fedora and RedHat on on a Pentium PC. Soon after MacOSX was released and I started using that up until I switched to Linux as my daily driver in 2018-2019.
I have a lot of gray hair.
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Physically 52 Earth Years,
First tried Linux M68k on an AMiGA (Probably 4000D) in the 90's.
Replaced my MS Small Business Server with CentOS about 10 years ago, and just drifted over to Linux for everything else since then. I only boot Win for anything I haven't bothered to get working on Linux yet. I'm now at the stage where I try to shoehorn Linux into anything with a CPU. 
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First computer was a Tandy 1000 bought from Radio Shack.
First used Linux in 2000. I was building my second computer and had a limited budget that didn't included money for Windows. So I used Ubuntu for like a week and then move to Mint.
Took a 10 year break from Linux 2009 - 2019. Building a new computer pulled me back into Linux.
Distro hopped for a while and then I found Garuda and it's been my main distro of choice for awhile now.
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Awesome story! But why Garuda? When (if) I get to 78, i'd expect to be a Gentoo nerd, with a bald head and a beard like Gandalf!
BTB, do you not regret getting rid of Bill Gates when you had the chance? 
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LOL! Hey, he was just a junior in high school. Gentoo, you go to be kidding. I want an OS and distro that provides the right tools to keep my box running. Data Science is my turn-on. Right now, I am working with Python and QT, very kool. OH, sorry i do not have a bald head. My hair is always shoulder length or longer. And my hair is rather white. And no beard ever.
take care dude
gary
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HAIR!
The musical
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I was born a little late, and identify as a zoomer 
I will accept wannabe-zoomer. 27.
Daily driving Linux since 2020 (Manjaro -> Garuda), WSL since WSL 2.0 came out. Been using Garuda since June 2020, got held back by exams 
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I have seen floppy disk but I didn't tried and that Reminds me Slackware and Dosbox
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"floppy disk" - TillIDie
"Slackware" - hacker_17
I think they make a dysfunctional pill for those, don't they?
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PCs had 2 floppy drivers: A and B
C was Hard Disk.
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LOL according to that categorization I'm a CD-ROM guy
Although I can remember myself installing a printer driver from a floppy disk o.o
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I'm 28 years old and somehow my first ever experience with Linux was back when Canonical used to send you CDs of *buntu for free, 8.04 and 8.10 versions. It feels wild just thinking about how long ago that was.
For some reasons, I had issues with my windows computer kinda frequently, so i dabbled in various "portable distros" like Slax, Porteus and Fatdog64 quite often throughout 2014-2016. I started "daily driving" Linux only about since the summer of 2018, after my laptop at the time had to have the hdd replaced. I watched Luke Smith on youtube a lot at the time and his point of view that "computers should be interchangeable and easily replaceable" and something about arch and arch-based distros and free software in general inspired me to try moving to Linux for good (and buy into a Thinkpad meme lol). So I started with Manjaro XFCE, then moved to ArcoLinux i3wm about a year later, falling in love with tiling WMs and arch-based distors even more 
Last December I decided to get a modern desktop pc. Having read only one comment on youtube mentioning Garuda Linux, I then glanced quickly over some descriptions of key features like btrfs, snapshots, ease of getting gaming-related stuff done, all of that got me interested. Then the bold visuals of Dragonized edition and tools like Garuda Assistant convinced me for sure So far with Linux, I've stopped distro-hopping and settled comfortably on Garuda Dragonized (installing Bismuth to have the ultimate eye-candy and usability of KDE, but with tiling windows I got so used to over the years 
) for my desktop pc and on EndeavourOS i3wm for my laptop (an old thinkpad, gotta go resource-light). So far both of these distros are super stable and the best Linux experiences I've had
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I am 16 years old as well and started using (Gnu) Linux (originally Manjaro) at about 10 when windows vista got too slow on my parent's laptop (heavy boi).
I really broke that installation and then decided to switch to Garuda last year I think.
Linux is awesome, and there is so much to explore and play around with
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