> That's when Windows died for me I never really used it at home, I went from DOS to Coherent to Linux/BSDs. But from the Work Computers I had, I found one of

> That's when Windows died for me I never really used it at home, I went from DOS to Coherent to Linux/BSDs. But from the Work Computers I had, I found one of the NT (around 2000/2005) interesting. Then XP came out, but by then I was on Linux at work. I do not know how to replicate early PC usage these days where you poke around with the commercial OSs we have now. Maybe a Linux/BSD would be fun for a youngster to mess around with. You can still start with text mode and create silly to useful applications without GUI complexity. One example for a young person is to pull raw weather data from NOAA and create your own analysis applications using it.