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Hi! It was just some old no name PC gifted to me with an intel mobo and 128mb of ram. Ran Win98, but I soon discovered Ubuntu 6.10 which ran fine on it. I got

by winrid 5y ago

Hi! It was just some old no name PC gifted to me with an intel mobo and 128mb of ram. Ran Win98, but I soon discovered Ubuntu 6.10 which ran fine on it. I got free ram upgrades and used it to play free games (tons of time in Wolf ET) and learn programming. Tried a bunch of OSes after that. Eventually I got a free 1ghz PIII and mobo which was a nice upgrade that lasted until late 2007 when I built a Core2Duo machine. Hope you get well soon.

exikyut 5y ago
Woops, apologies I lost this tab mid-reply :( Very cool. I only knew about Knoppix at that point, which being a LiveCD didn't quite like 128MB RAM (just realized that's how much RAM my PIII had too, huh). Properly switched to Linux (cold-turkey :D) around 2007, and my focus on programming took a giant nosedive as I discovered the internet. Upgraded from Pentiums/Celerons to an i3 a friend gave me in 2012 IIRC. Still figuring out how to juggle the internet and focusing on programming lol I'm not "sick" per se, it's really just the whole head-exploding dumpster fire that is government support around mental health and "I really cannot jump this curb *points* so what do I do now?" et al. It's just a matter of time, fingers crossed things get figured out before I'm like 35 or 40... hmph