> Using free alternatives in 2000 as a desktop was laughable at best I used a combo of Linux & FreeBSD as my desktop OS exclusively from ~2000 to 2005 (when I

> Using free alternatives in 2000 as a desktop was laughable at best I used a combo of Linux & FreeBSD as my desktop OS exclusively from ~2000 to 2005 (when I bought my first mac). For the 4 years prior to that range I only ever booted into Windows to play games.