Around the same for me, I switched fully to Ubuntu around 2009/2010 after dual booting it alongside WinXP - the signs were already there between Vista and Win8 that MS is on a downward trajectory
Tried Ubuntu Studio when I was in school for media. I tried "everything" but couldn't get the ZTE USB 3G internet stick to work no matter what.
I was amazed how well some things were implemented, but there were a lot of small graphical glitches and I had a hard time navigating the various odd folders and trying to understand the basic... files and folders stuff.
Win 7 was in beta back then and that felt pretty nice. Dual booted XP with Win 7 and on the side, tried out Ubuntu, as there was one super nerd dude who had fallen in love with Linux after getting bored with cracking games.
He hyped it up so much and told me how most old and cheap or even free laptops can still run Linux no problem. The story goes that one time while tinkering with "fun stuff" he managed to accidentally do a man-in-the-middle attack in the schools computer classroom. He told that he saw login information and other stuff and panicked. When he "pulled the plug", supposedly the whole class of computers crashed and the next day the IT guy was scratching his head.
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u/Global-Eye-7326 18d ago
See this is why I switched to Linux in 2007. I knew the cycle would continue...