First machine was an Apple IIe, second was MS-DOS, I want to say version 6.2.

Did she intentionally use the word disclude to make linux autists mad?

Can we stop throwing around “autistic” for anything? Have people actually ever met autistic kids? It has nothing to do about having uncommon interest, it imply much more things than that.

Fun. I didn’t grow up issuing a Mac, not did I grow up using Windows… Nor Linux.

When I started on computers, we used DOS.

I’m old.

I’m not old enough to remember punch cards, I was solidly in the x86 generation, but still.

For the record, I do IT support now. I’m the one that helps you with your printer.

I started on Mac and installed Linux on a PS3 just to see if I could, where does that put me on the spectrum

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back in the 80’s, whole rooms of Apple Computers sat empty, all day, everyday. At all the different schools i went to as a child.

I assume it’s because none of the teachers wanted to learn them, it was real fucking shitty growing up surrounded by so many stupid fucks.

but now, soon, AI will be x1000000000⁷ better teachers. So at least the children will have an actual chance in this world, and so many of them won’t choose liberal arts as their course of studies. -all that time they were just disciplining the children

Well that feels targeted.

I learned because I was torrenting and broke the family windows computer. It was either fix it or get grounded.

I switched to Linux after my experience with Windows Millennium Edition. Many people have since referred to me as some sort of programming genius and hacker…I don’t know crap about any of that. I’ve simply followed instructions and referred to the help communities, whenever I’ve had trouble. Using the mainstream distributions (I’m guessing) has kept me from having much trouble.

I think my kids may benefit, as my wife only uses Mac, I have 2 Ubuntus and a Mint, and the kids use Chromebooks at school. We have 2 iPad and a Galaxy tab in the house. 1 kid has an Android phone and the other an iPhone. My wife and I both have flagship Android phones.

Sometimes it’s fun to watch them debate over which systems they prefer, depending on the school projects they work on.

Is the hypothesis that Windows being constantly broken forces you to learn how to fix it ? Because that’s kinda what happened to me 😆

Mac not being able to play any games forced me to mess around with other operating systems on it

Looking at the comments, it occurs to me that we’re not a representative section of the online community.

Were literally people who went out of their way to not use a conventional/commercial tech product.

I wonder what the % of people on here is who have built a pc, used a raspberry pi or installed Linux compared to the outside world.

I played education games on a Apple II in 1998; I was in the first grade.

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