@eric5949 Late nineties. Joined a computer club at uni and got to play with aix, hp-ux, vms, linux, netbsd, freebsd, nextstep, amiga... Installed FreeBSD on my own box and experienced the, eh, joy of "make world", though making X Windows took longer. I kept Windows around for games but stopped even that around.. Nintendo 3DS. Used windowmaker for at least a decade, now on KDE Neon.
@Max_P @ErnieBernie10 This is one of several reasons why I don't use gnome