what caused you to get into Linux?

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What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?

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Windows.

In my case, specifically Windows 95.

98 for me. One day, it borked the file system one last time. Never looked back. Have to use Win 10 at work, though, and I hate how cumbersome and slow it is

Microsoft has been trying to make me hate computers since the 90s lol

Yeah. On the same hardware, Linux (Knoppix back then) worked much better than Windows (the 98/XP era).

Same. More specifically windows 8.

I used a bootable Ubuntu usb to save the contents of my windows hard drive after it failed. I successfully brought the files onto an external drive and installed Linux after. It was so fun. It still is.