You were lucky that you only knew Windows and had concerned parents. At around the same time I had people show me various flavours of Linux with great enthusia

You were lucky that you only knew Windows and had concerned parents. At around the same time I had people show me various flavours of Linux with great enthusiasm. I was supposed to be impressed but I had SGI Irix plus applications for it. From my perspective I could not see the point of this 'toy operating system'. It was a bit like one of those cloned Chinese cars that we used to laugh about, with stupid names for programs that were sensibly named in real UNIX. As a consequence I missed the boat and only started with Linux when Ubuntu came along.