Can confirm. Started on a Mac. Was using terminal, hex editor, resource forks, and squirrel basic to modify my Catz installation before I was 10. Windows peers seemed to think computers were made of rainbows and unicorns
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Nah. Windows with ati card here. I was fucking around with regedit and config files, drivers and dlls every damn time I wanted to run a game.
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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?
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My first usage of tech was my parents Apple 2E. So I don't know what that means... It wasn't Windows or Mac (the 2E is pre Macintosh).
What about those of us who were typing code from a magazine into an Oric-1?
The study is about kids, not ancient beings.
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VIC-20
"When I was a kid the computer didn't need some filthy OS!!"
ZX81 - C64 - Amiga (that wasn't an OS, it was just for launching stuff! /s ) gang