From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: Why I Made the Switch
January 26, 2026
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What's better than a devil you don't know?
The devil you do.
I've used Windows for as long as I've been alive. At 6 years old, my first computer was a Windows 98 machine, with an Athlon XP 1900+ (Palomino core) and a GeForce 440 MX, blessed with a generous 256 megabytes of RAM.
Looking back, I kinda got scammed with that graphics card, but what could I do? I was a silly kid. (The missing shader support came back to bite me in the ass)
Also, is it weird that I still remember the specs of my first computer, 22 years later?
Anyway, Windows has been familiar and comfortable. I knew all the workarounds and how to extract maximum efficiency from it.
I was a happy user, for over 20 years, and Windows has been my go-to for everything computer-related.
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