So, in September of 1999, I got my very first Computer.
OMG.................you got your first computer 3 months after I first installed S.u.S.E. Linux? Still got the CD somewhere as it happens........................

I never really went into Linux that deeply as it was the "Millennium Panic" at the time, and I was using my home time on work projects helping out other guys. After all, I was working with a nicely balanced team, but with a preponderance of younger members................. I was one of the "grey hairs" who knew DOS, 3.X and Office 4.3. That meant that I knew Access 2, whereas we used Access 8................. trust me, converting "user mushrooms" from Access 2 to Access 8 isn't an easy task........ and there isn't any systems documentation of course, or even the template file. When I look back on it now, I must have been bloody mad

I delivered the last 2000 compliant application with 15 minutes to spare before our corporate deadline. we had 100% site Y2K compliance, and were the only site in the group to do so.

I was then asked to do the 3 day "Millennium Weekend" and I asked the boss if he didn't trust me.............I pointed to one of my test rigs and he saw it was running at 28 May 2000. "Why that date Johnno?" he asked.......so I explained that because a millennium year is also a leap year there might be a 29th February issue, so I had covered that as well, and 28th May happened to be my birthday, so he had better not forget a card!. He just told me to come in and help anyone else who had problems ............there was $6750 + expenses in it. Not bad for a weekend I thought?

I guess I am a Windows fanboi because it has provided me with one hell of a lot of beer vouchers over the years
I am very interested in Linux, and I have worked with Unix for quite a few years, but neither are "user facing", so it is hard to stand out from the crowd in most commercial environments. Unfortunately, that is how you get the money to pay the bills and
Don't worry gore, when you get to be an old fart like me you will be just as cynical.

Anyways, if you had immediately deleted Win95 and loaded Win98SE you would probably have never gotten into Linux and OSes in general.............. so Win95 and your uncle did you a big favour?