For me, it was Unix that introduced me to Linux. At work, we had Sun Solaris and the console ran CDE[0] WM which for some reason I really liked. At the same tim

For me, it was Unix that introduced me to Linux. At work, we had Sun Solaris and the console ran CDE[0] WM which for some reason I really liked. At the same time, I started to learn/write shell scripts and loved the experience. Later when I bought my computer, I wanted to install Solaris on it so that I could have CDE on it and practice shell scripts at home but me and a colleague couldn't make it run on x86 (I think we had the right build but some hardware wasn't compatible). At the same time, PCQuest[1] was the first magazine that I bought that had a live-cd with PCQLinux on it - can't remember how it was. Later I got another issue that had Knoppix with it - that basically blew my mind because practically everything just worked - KDE was a nice WM and I could write shell scripts on Linux at my home! I also found many programs/utilities that were included in Knoppix to be fascinating. Eventually managed to get the dial-up working too and there was no looking back after that. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCQuest_(magazine)#PCQ_Linux_Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCQuest_(magazine)#PCQ_Linux_I...