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What's your "I switched to Linux because..." Story? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] uKale@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I grew up with my brother throwing used computer parts on my bed whenever he upgraded something, in case I wanted to reuse them. He also gave me a copy of Windows 98, and later XP that I reused every time I did a major hw upgrade. But one day the XP CD-rom was just too old, but I was too young to start working and had no money, and so Linux came into my life.