We go off-topic in discussion topics all the time. It generally does no harm. Here, we are discussing Age & Honesty. I see nothing unrelated in your post, personally. 
@NaN is spreading his wings. If he’s so concerned about it he can move them into OT Chit-Chat. I see no reason. None.
I am not really concerned was just pointing out that our community isn’t restricted to linux only so no one needs to be sorry to speak freely and express their opinion.
So, discussing old battle scars? Here is my list:
M$-DOS 5.x and 6.x
PC-DOS 5.x, 6.x and 7.x
Windows 3.0, 3.1 and WFW 3.11
Windows 95 and OSR 2.5
Windows 98 and SE
Windows Mistake Edition
Windows 2000 pro and server (best windows EVER)
Windows XP
Windows 7, 8.1, 10 and 11
Conectiva Linux
Turbolinux
Mandrake Linux/Mandriva Linux
Lindows/Linspire
Linux Mint
Garuda Linux
OS/2 Warp 4.x
The lovely, LOVELY BeOS
Mac OS 8 and 9 (shamefully, work reasons)
The list is in semi-chronological order.
LOL, based on your list I’m sure we may have crossed paths before. Except you must have skipped PCLOS. 
BTW, I friggen loved O/S 2, from Presentation Manager onward.
I remember one of the O/S 2–maybe it was PM 2.1? It cost $99 and came on 100 3.5" floppy disks, which were about $30/10-pack back then. Bill Gates suggested people install Windows instead, format the floppies, and make some $$$.
If it was Red Hat, I’m aghast you survived. Congrats!
It was that time. I now use Garuda Cinnamon, Kde Lite and XFCE on my computers.
LOL! I cut my teeth on Slackware. But it got boring real quick. Now I run Arch, mostly, Garuda sometimes but use the dr4gonized KDE LiveISO frequently. Like right this minute–as I write this. Today I overwrote a perfectly good hand-installed Arch system with Windows. Why? Bored.
But then I made one little mistake. I linked the data directories to the NTFS partition on my backup drive instead of the proper directories on the right drive’s NTFS partition. I blame it on not enough coffee @ 4 A.M. But would Windows let me reverse that? Not without extensive copying/pasting god knows where. Cancelled that, but then Windows screwed itself on a bad update, so bye-bye, not gonna put up with this happy crappy.
So here I am, now 6 A.M., booted into a live Garuda ISO and rid of Windows 11, slowly copying backed up data from a spinner to the right place, and wondering why Windows drive designation doesn’t make sense, like Linux ‘/dev/sdx’ and heading towards an Arch install, once again. But I love Linux and I love Arch, so it’s no love lost to Windows. I just get bored sometimes, and see what it costs me?
Doing all that, mainly configuring and prettying-up KDE Plasma post install–well, shit, there goes my nap. And at 71 my daily nap is damned important. How else can I get up and start harassing these good folk here at 3 A.M.?
Oh Gawd, what a self-inflicted pain-in-the-butt.
Well, I only had direct contact with OS/2 warp 4+, but yes, it was something special.
Even nowadays, you can not really get the same feeling with a UI overhaul, but I have not made up my mind on getting ArcaOS.
I had to deal with hundreds of floppies while installing windows, specially when doing hack and slash installs with different DOS versions, SPECIALLY on older (for the mid 90´s) machines…
Sadly, I really doubt we ever crossed paths, I live in Argentina 
Hey, I remember Red Hat! I wanted to buy it, but it was very expensive for me back then. I tested Turbolinux and Conectiva, and ended up with Turbolinux.
AND, before any of you say anything, I was using those purely for work, so I was not ¨handy¨ on their inner workings.
Figuratively. I meant that we had/have run and/or been forum members of a non-specified distro at some point in time. Don’t believe that? Well, being here now tends to prove the possibility.
I’ve never been to Argentina, but if there’s still cowboys on the Pampas I’d fit right in. My hometown is/was Dodge City, Kansas, and cowboyin’ is what I did summers as a kid to earn walking-around cash.
Well, ¨cowboys¨ (gauchos) are still here, sort of, like, they are not exactly the same, well, modern version? 
The city where I live is near the old times frontier, so there are frontier styled touristic towns, and frontier era forts around. (I live in northern Buenos Aires Province, so, yeah, it is part of the Pampas zone)
I am 61 years old. I have been using computer (privately) since 1993. I have tried Linux a couple of times before but found it be too cumbersome. That is until 2007 when I decided I was done with windows and its, atleast then, common update problems. I have tried many distros through the years. Linux mint was a favourite for many years and then MX-linux. Until I discovered Garuda of course. Earlier I was “afraid” of rolling distros because I have heard that they often get problems after updates. Not to speak of Arch, a completely strange distro that I knew nothing about.
But boy was I wrong. I have been using Garuda for a year now and have done 550 updates without any - not even one - problems whatsoever. I use Windows only for gaming nowadays.
So who remembers the turbo switch on there tower Pc
Quite the confusing button if you didn’t realize exactly what the button did.
@Bro I’m back to annoy you Yes i’m back in Peru after a 4 year break in the UK Just to remind the children I was using Garuda before you had thought of it. lol 
I,m also older than you young whipper-snapper
Goddddddddamn, it’s good to see you, you rowdy old bastard! Was just thinking about you while messaging with a compatriot of yours. And here you pop up! I shoulda known.
Folks, meet Mandog, if you don 't already know him. He stalks me from forum-to-forum. He’s been using Arch since Christ was a midshipman.
He’s also mad as a hatter.
Going back to the UK was the worst 4 years of my life so much hate. we were treated like illegal immigrants in my country of birth , refused any benefits like disability for 3 years i could not believe it.
I still have cases with turbo switches
I got better. Cases with on/off buttons. And 2 side-by-side USB ports out of 6 on the back of the case that are bollixed.
