sammiev, that's far-effing-out! You're my new idol. 
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I'm 60 years old. Photographer. 16 years using Mac OS and now 9 years using only Linux for my work. I use Garuda for all except video. For that i use Kubuntu 20.04 because Davinci Resolve needs special proprietary drivers for my AMD CPU. I'm really impressed with Garuda KDE. Good work.
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Turned 37 last week. Been using Linux on and off for about 23 years (took a network administration class covering windows NT and *nix at the local vocational academy). On and off because i was an avid gamer, and the only thing that worked natively was Q3 and i was too lazy to figure out how to use wine for the others that might've worked.
Support has come a long way, i havent touched windows outside of work for a year and a half. Decided to make the transition finally because I'm changing careers to become a bioinformatician and data scientist. Linux is much less in your way in that field, and most of the tools are developed for it.
Still a ****ton i don't know, but learning as I go. Thanks for teaching me some things, even by searching I'm learning passively.
EDIT: forgot to add that i started in RedHat 7, and later fedora and ubuntu in college. Played around with other distros (mandrake, slackware, ...). Back then we were ignorant kids and there weren't that many distros available so we picked our distro of choice based on how cool the name sounded.
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33 by now.
You can't really say that I started using Linux back then, but I installed my first SuSE Linux when I was maybe 12 or 13. I am honestly not entirely sure. Before that I needed to install Windows 98SE on a computer with Windows 95 on it and didn't have the update-version, just the regular one and couldn't believe how many stones Microsoft throws in your way and how much they wanna melk you for your money.
So naturally few years later I bought a magazine with Suse as a DVD in it. Installed it, and what can I say... I hated it even more! I did not get it whatsoever. It was a completely different eco-system, drivers didn't work, I had no idea how to install anything... but even if I formatted the hard disk few days later again to go back to Windows, I had the feeling that I could handle it if... well, if I could. I didn't deem it impossible.
So the years after that I started experimenting with it, again and again: Knoppix, Kanotix, Ubuntu (which was very new back then ^^), Debian. Finally, in my early 20s, I installed Arch - and, for the sake of it, Gentoo Linux. It actually worked! I didn't really know what I was doing, but just using the installation guide I was actually able to install it. Didn't last long however, went back to Arch... had fun just trying to install and play games which weren't meant for Linux. Sometimes took me days and when I was finished I didn't actually play the game for long but searched for a new challenge... were different times. ^^
Afterwards actually went back to Windows in my mid 20s. Was kinda tired of it all and had better things to do - I was a little messed up and just wanted to game. But at some point I installed Manjaro, then switched back to Arch. I am so happy and amazed how far Linux has come for Gamers by now. By now almost exclusive Linuxer, since Windows doesn't have anything anymore that I need. Have Windows on my PC right now in Dual-Boot, but I don't use it. Wanted to learn AutoCAD on it, but I'll most likely not go into the job I wanted to learn it for.
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well I used to have to insert 5¼ disks into my grandma's Commodore 64 to play games
I always forget my age though.
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I hope it’s not too late for a happy birthday 
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Same, justmere, like this?
I remember pictures better than names, so if someone keeps mixing up their avatar, I'll be in trouble 
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That’s me! Someone took a really good picture of me at my last scrimmage, so i couldn’t resist changing it. I love the spider, and it will make a return soon! 
Edit:
Thank you!!! 
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Late Happy Birthday too
I too experienced yesterday, the decay of the body, having passed from shamefull-age to shamefull-age + 1 
Sometimes I look at the few months/years I have left, and I think.... "damn, so many great games I haven't played yet"
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Never look at the years left.
A person becomes old when he starts counting backwards.
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Ha! The only true way to forget about being old is getting old enough to forget being old. 
Me, I hardly know what year it is nevermind how old I am.
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Yeah... I actually forgot my birthday this year. I also forgot my smartphone at home, so at work I didn't realize that it was the 18th. I thought it was the 17th... when the date came up and I insisted that it was the 17th but was corrected, I was like... oh...
What a hilariously forgetful day that was ^^
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Yes, but on the bright side we can rewatch movies and reread books and not have the endings ruined. 
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My Father is 69, how old are you?
I’m 75.
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71, here, sonny.
See, @Alemart. We’ve gotcha surrounded.
I think maybe @mandog, my pseudo-mentor in Arch, is about 102. Then again, he was an Archlinux early-adopter (2007?). I have seen competent beginning-Archers as young as 9-10 post in the Arch Forums. And there are those way older than us old-fogies that run Garuda or Arch (lookin’ at you, @SGS). Personally, I like problem-solving things that keeps me feeling significantly more cognizant than those that don’t. Example: I always do simple math formulas in my head; do you?
The 1st reaction I normally have when I note a sub-teen or older than myself (line-drawing?), is oh shit, not again what a wonderful thing it is, that Linux & opensource (and closed) give those that wish it, an operating system of their own.
No reliance on anything other than the imagination.
Other than my wife of 30 years, Linux is my longest lasting love-affair. And there are many others who feel the same. Many of them are here.
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21 here… 
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Age doesn’t matter, Nerds are always single
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71?, then, you DO sound like my father XD
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