I guess I'm "privileged" or whatever but things worked out in a way that before middle school I knew we could run either Linux or a BSD 4.2 derived OS that was

I guess I'm "privileged" or whatever but things worked out in a way that before middle school I knew we could run either Linux or a BSD 4.2 derived OS that was genetically related to the SGI and Sun boxes one of my relatives had. I always looked at anything in the DOS/Windows noosphere as belonging to a distant and failed civilization, or more simply put: DOS/Windows is for the slaves.