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what caused you to get into Linux? (programming.dev)
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What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?

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[–] RustySharp@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

based on curiosity, which was short lived, because Linux (Mandrake) at the time was too challenging.

Story of my life back in high school. Except it was Slackware, from the back of a magazine.

Wasn't until I took Operating System Design in university that the whole linux/unix philosophy clicked.