We've been doing "here's a linux distro on some old windows hardware" for literally decades now. It just won't catch on, And yet, this is how I started when I

We've been doing "here's a linux distro on some old windows hardware" for literally decades now. It just won't catch on, And yet, this is how I started when I was 12 years old. We had a 386SX-25 with 4MB RAM and a 40MB hard disk running DOS/Windows 3.11. I couldn't afford a commercial compiler, I got a magazine with Slackware 1.1.x, and installed it. I took some years before I got further than writing some basic programs. But I read any documentation I could find (IIRC it had the TLDP HOWTOs on the CD-ROM), and not much later there was a Dutch book about Linux on the market. Halfway high school, I knew enough about networking and UNIX that I was paid to set up and maintain servers/firewalls, etc. at my school. Sure, 90% of the people will probably buy an iDevice or Android tablet. But lets not forget that there are also tens of thousands (if not more) whose technical interest was ignited by installing Linux on an old Windows machine. Me, I am still thankful to Pat Volkerding. I would probably be in a different place without his (and others') heroic work.