I started using Linux most of the time in 1998 because my parents had installed RedHat 5.2 to dual boot with Windows and I didn't like what Microsoft was doing back then, so I decided to use Linux whenever I'm not playing games. (And then moved on to SuSe 7 in 2001, then to Debian, and later, when Ubuntu was invented, moved to Ubuntu, and when Linux Mint came around, started using that one. (wait, no, actually I moved only when I got pissed off by Unity, which was horrible in its first forms!) Starting from Debian, things were already quite easy, although configuring the graphical environment, X, was super tedious...)

It's a bit weird feeling reading about how people write about how bad Windows has gone, and not really having experience of it since Windows 7, that I did have for a while in between. That was probably in 2011 or so. Then I soon got a new computer and kind of forgot to install Windows on it, because things worked well enough anyway.

In any case, already when Ubuntu came out, I already felt that every time I had to resolve my friends' issues on their Windows computers that it was a very good thing that I was running Linux at home, because it meant there was so much less hassle! It felt like "damn, if people only knew how well this works these days, they'd never want to use Windows. And then there would be more software as well!"