I was an edgy teenager and wanted to use something different my friends were using so I asked my even more edgy friend how to start with Linux and he pointed me

I was an edgy teenager and wanted to use something different my friends were using so I asked my even more edgy friend how to start with Linux and he pointed me towards Slackware or Gentoo. That was back in 2003 I believe. I also remember being enamored with KDE. I'm not trolling. Thats exactly how I got into Linux and later other flavors of Unix like BSD and Solaris. Fast forward and that silly teenager angst paved the way to my whole career. PS: my even more edgy friend is still very edgy though he also became a father and a successful engineer.