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My first operating system was AmigaOS 1.3, then I didn't have a computer through my teenage years and only in 2001 I bought a PC and a magacine with a Suse Linux CD in it which I installed on that PC. But I couldn't get the 56k modem to work with it because some drivers were missing. So I had to switch for a year to Windows 2000 (or 98, I don't remember). But then I had a girlfriend who had a PC which was connected to the internet via ADSL, so I could do the research on that her computer while installing Debian on my computer from a 3.5 inch floppy disk (I found a network installer which fit on the disk). So I only had to use Windows for about a year.
There was another exception where I had a MacBook from 2008 to 2012 but other than that I've been on Linux for most of my life. Oh and I use Arch btw.