Yes I also had one with a Commodore 64 lol!
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found that hidden gem at EndeavourOS forum 
@SGS
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I was always jealous of you Commodore people. 
It was a very nicely constructed machine-sleek in its own way with a nice, springy keyboard yet solid while light weight (no keys popping off, etc). Aside from playing around with some silly BASIC loops I mainly used it as a word processor. It was a laptop precursor in its own way lol.
My late father, on the other hand, had a TRS-80 and he had that thing cranking some hard core numeric sets on a daily basis working out thermodynamics designs for aeronautics engine cooling systems-he eventually earned a patent for his company. He never got rich from it but they did save his butt through early retirement when layoffs came around. That was the pre-crapification era!
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I million coders started with BASIC spaghetti.
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I eventually did learn mainframe computer operations on the IBM 370/135 with the massive platter disks and tape reels, and later learned machine code traffic light patterns on the breadboard & C (maybe it was C+) but can’t say I got good at it because that darned perpetual calendar project the prof assigned us was not what I regarded as fun. That was late 80s so was on the UNIX systems. I never got into much coding (sadly for my wallet) but the upside is having gotten the deep dive so did gain a fearlessness (borderline recklessness) toward IT. Not being afraid of breaking things is not necessarily the same as competence but it is a good first step in that direction lol. Long live Garuda Linux! 
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The school I used for Internet ran UNIX, so I had a leg up when I started Linux.
I started with a 5K VIC-20, moved to the swell C=64, and finally got an Amiga, which I truly loved. I’m convinced its OS was based on UNIX. I was one of the first in my area to use an Amiga, and was one of the last to keep using one.
In 1996, I was gifted a Windows computer, and stayed with Windows until 2006, when I threw up my hands at XP and installed Ubuntu 8.04. Fell in love with the GNOME 2 desktop (I still use MATE) and the OS itself.
Software availability drove me to Manjaro, and I discovered the problems with not having the latest packages. Installed EndeavourOS, which I liked, but Garuda scratched the itch. After 16 years of using Linux, I can aver that it’s only gotten better.
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Definitely the Amiga was coolest! I got the Hyundai Laptop with 3.2inch fdd back in 1992 which ran win3.1. I also ran XP through to ~2010. Finally got on Linux in 2018 and never looked back. I haven’t used the Ubuntu but have a Mint Cinnamon but prefer the Garuda Dr460nized although the MINT was not a bad starter! The disk partitioning, user account setup, and encryption set up from the beginning of the install i find to be a bit convoluted - it is probably fine for the user who doesn’t want to tweak settings and just install according to the image default scripts. That is where Garuda excels, catering for the discerning user who likes a near infinity of settings freedom with minimum hassle while the Garuda swap file partitioning system seems to give great performance to old but sturdy clunker machines (Thinkpads with enough RAM)!
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FOSS on Instagram 
(blocked at DNS level here along with all other Meta stuff 
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Two real, actual paper magazines that saw me through my youth.
Mad Magazine, later on, was really good on LSD. The margin cartoons killed! 
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Out of context, it certainly sounds cruel 
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@Ankur I see what you did there
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@Ankur You can arouse curiosity by deleting your text.
Many users have probably read it.
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Ahh… I sometimes post something then I feel like it is useless, then I delete that 
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Even I had a lesson in my textbook with same name, but it was different
Heck, I have the entire series (21 books) of The Famous Five by Enid Blyton (children’s novel) and there’s a main character with the name!
I think it’s a common name in UK, or was atleast. But then somehow just got ruined? 
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