I discovered Linux sometime in 1992 - I forget which distribution, but a friend of mine gave me about 10 diskettes from which I installed and obtained a working OS without X windows.

Then in 1993 I started dowloading 20 disks of the SLS distribution. I really liked that one.
In February of 1994 I moved to Slackware 0.9 something and right away loved it.
It also consisted of about 20 disks. I remember I even got X windows to work after manually calculating the vert, horiz refresh rates , etc. The steps to do this were in a document created by Eric Raymond (I may be wrong about this though).

I have been using Slackware ever since (from 1994) and I have never used
MS Windows at home. I have only used it at work because I have had to, although most of my real programming was done on SCO Unix, SUN/Solaris, HP/UX.

I must say that if Linux had not been invented and created, today I would probably not be using a computer at home at all - Linux is one of the most wonderful technological products ever created!

Everytime I use MS Windows I just feel like laughing at it - it is just an expensive joke.

I am an "OLD" guy now, and I can tell you I do not wax melodramatic anymore, but there is simply no product, or tool that is so intelligently designed, well built, liberating, useful, and fun to use, as is Linux.

Might as well take this opportunity to publicly thank Linus Torvalds and EVERYONE who has had a hand in making Linux what it is today.

and thanks for this survey.