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What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Windows 8 being unusable on my shitty laptop I had back then, IIRC it would bluescreen 9 out of 10 times on startup (this same bug still persisted when eventually Windows 10 came out). I essentially switched to Linux full time after that.

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