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I started on a Mac and now I'm an IT expert.

But that's because my next computer was a Dell.

Some people are just naturally computer savvy. My class and I were taught on how to use command prompt, but only few of us could get it. We just wanted to play Command and Conquer and DOTA, and leave the tweaking to the nerds.

Lemmy Linux bros make me avoid Linux at all costs

My schools had this growing up. The old single button Macs(I remember this game too).

We didn’t have a computer in our house until I was ~8. It was blistering quick 400Mhz machine running windows…(Good ol’ slot load processors).

But the time I was ~11 I had built my own computer. Mother was kind enough to take a leap of faith and set a budget for the project. My parents are absolutely not tech people. So they had no idea what I was doing and could offer no assistance other than monetary. It worked out in the end though.

I work in the tech industry and I’ve had windows boxes, and even a few MacBook pros for work. We deploy stuff to Linux and windows. I have dual Xeon servers running Linux in the basement.

Dislike the idea that only autistic people use linux.

Started on Mac. Still use one as my (not so-) daily driver. In the ~30 years in between, I've (professionally) been a PC field service technician, mainframe operator, datacenter tech, enterprise monitoring administrator, and a whole slew of other tech hats. In my personal time, I learned OS 7-8 inside and out (ResEdit ftw), built PCs out of spare parts (throwing Linux on some just to do it), turned an old tower into an external SCSI enclosure, built VM stacks for fun (DOS 6.2, Win 3.1, Win95 all on the same Mac box decades ago, just because I could), half-wired my parents' house for ethernet, built them a Hackintosh from parts, stuck a Linux VM on an old laptop to host Citrix so I could remote into work and have that one extra layer between personal and business, and gotten completely disillusioned with tech as a hobby and as the framework for modern society.

Was taught using Apple2 then Macs in Jr High.

I built my own PC in high school (late 90s), upgraded it through college, then switched back to Mac’s when they went Intel.

I can’t muddle through Ruby, Python, Perl, Php C/C++, Objective-C and Swift. But wrote Actionscript, JS, and HTML/CSS for a living for 15 years.

How you start doesn’t matter and Mac’s are still better than Chromebooks. They have Unix shells FFS.

1st ever system I played on was an Apple II. And my older gen X brother had an Odyssey 2, a Commodore 64, and later I messed with a bunch of pre-Windows DOS systems via home and school computer lab playing and screwing around with games made in BASIC.

Then we got a Mac OS 7 system at home thanks to my teacher parent getting a grant for a Mac computer (Performa 550) for their classroom.

From there on out, I meandered back and forth between Mac and Windows.

Now I have a desktop with Win10, a Steam Deck, and my spouse’s desktop I just installed Bazzite on to let her play games and act as a trial run for changing my own to some flavor of Linux before Windows shuts things down in October.

No autism diagnosis. Just an elder millennial lucky enough to get a lot of experience with a lot of different computers at a young age.

my favorite pornotrope is how people still swear by the belief that apple computers suffer no "malware", because why are androids apparently so promiscuous like any black person wants to spoof torvalds' github username

do androids sleep with promiscuous scapegoats?

I started on a Mac, and now I live as a nomadic caveman, never contacting the civilized world.