Got you beat by ... 1 year ;-) It was a pretty big change when our (already outdated at that time) lab in college scrapped the PDP11-44 and replaced it with 20

Got you beat by ... 1 year ;-) It was a pretty big change when our (already outdated at that time) lab in college scrapped the PDP11-44 and replaced it with 20 Windows 3.0 machines and 10 Macs. Been using Linux since I picked up a Yggdrasil CD in 1993. Sorry to hear you can't use WSL ... it's great IMO.