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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm Gen X and credit playing video games for most of my self-taught knowledge on how computers work. My first computer was an Apple IIe, which didn't require much more than putting disks in and typing startup commands, but when we got a Windows 3.1 PC next, I had to learn about file systems and troubleshooting when things inevitably went wrong. To this day, most of the computer stuff I've learned was from trying to get games working.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, PC gaming was a pretty significant motivator for me to learn all sorts of tech related skills.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

And the limited experience I have with Linux is from getting my Raspberry Pi working. I even posted about having a problem and learned about "sudo." (it worked)