My dear old grandad (R.I.P) bought me my first proper...

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My dear old grandad (R.I.P) bought me my first proper PC when I was like 16. It came with Mandrake 9 instead of Windows, I was like "the hells that?".

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I now run https://gamingonlinux.com

A tweet asks: "what’s the biggest case of the domino meme your life?

Mine is:

Googling “origin of the nyan cat song” ➡️ I live in Washington, DC now"

Like 13 June at 12:59 | Open on mastodon.social

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The Book of Kels

@gamingonlinux

I needed something to run for this cheap computer I'd gotten, but I didn't have access to a pirated copy of Windows. Guy at work had a RedHat 5.2 CD...

13 June at 13:17 | Open on wandering.shop

vikkelä

@gamingonlinux
Snowden's reveal in 2013 -> I decided to do my own server with everything (mail, cloud, whatever you can think of)

The expertise with this, especially docker, was a factor for landing my job during past 7.5yrs.

13 June at 13:21 | Open on hachyderm.io

ex3mpted

@gamingonlinux messing around with redstone -> learning everything i can about computers

13 June at 13:52 | Open on mastodon.social

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@gamingonlinux wow all the way back to Mandrake... Before it became Mandriva...

13 June at 14:26 | Open on mastodon.social

Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@Unatributed yep, what a time to be alive that was lol

13 June at 14:28 | Open on mastodon.social

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@gamingonlinux
Wildly enough Mandrake wasn't even the first distro I tried, but it was the best at that time.

13 June at 19:58 | Open on mastodon.social

Jeb Brooks

@gamingonlinux when I was in second grade my dad bought me a little robot kit. One of those ones that uses switches to turn reverse motors so it won't fall off a table. From there I discovered Lego mindstorm and now I am a safety software engineer.

13 June at 15:31 | Open on techhub.social

Jamie Knight

@gamingonlinux getting my dad’s ZX-81 when he was done with it in 1982. Got a career and ruined eyesight for my trouble.

13 June at 18:06 | Open on social.vivaldi.net

Andrea Tuzzolino

@gamingonlinux he did as we say in italy "una mandrakata"

14 June at 12:43 | Open on mastodon.social

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