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Why I Fell In Love With Linux, And Why PCLinuxOS Magazine Feels Like Home
I didn’t just start using Linux in the late 1990s. I fell into it. Like a horse that knows the trail before you do. It wasn’t a choice. It was an awakening, then turned to a lifestyle.
Back then, I was a medical student starting my first year in Egypt, curious about how things really worked. Not just medicine, but machines. The terminal was my first teacher. Config files became my journal. Bash scripts? My daily meditation.
Some of my engineer friends were using RedHat, others Debian, but a unique friend used Slackware, and he did not even care (he still uses Slackware though). However, my geek friends used FreeBSD, Debian, and Mandrake (now Mandriva).
But the primary reason for me to use Linux, actually and the things I really liked about it, was that It saved me countless hours that I would have wasted gaming, and instead I focused on Learning.