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A study on tech literacy (lemmy.world)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

but was blessed enough (not dirt poor) to have a family Windows PC at home

"Blessed" and "windows" on the same sentence only make sense of there's a fire and you can jump from one.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    I get it, Windows is trash, but at least using Windows and Android got me to care about what my device does and can do, eventually leading to me getting Fedora.

    The point is that I have experience with having to fix the occasional issue and know basic computer skills due to using Windows.

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I switched to Linux with Ubuntu 8.04 (April 2008). I assume your comment refers to a time before that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I started using Linux maybe 10 years earlier than that and stopped using Windows at all around Windows 7 (at which point it was just the occasional dual-boot into Windows for a few games every couple of months) and at no point can I remember a time when Windows was good in that time period.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Hardy Heron gang rise up! Me too! I'm now in my late 30's and still need to venture into the world of PGP encryption. And my daily driver is Debian. Distro hopped in the early years... Fond memories of BunsenLabs #! (Crunchbang) and Slax. Had many toxic encounters with OpenSUSE forum users, twas a major turnoff for a young penguin.

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