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I discovered Linux in the days when Windows 3.1 was, if not the state of the art, at least still massively the dominant MS-GUI system. The moment I had a realistic choice, I went for it. Three months of downloading Slackware piecemeal over a 33.6 connection before I could install it. Yipes!

Now I’ll go into extreme heretic mode and say that it wasn’t Windows as such that I was trying to escape from, it was GUIs. Had I known at the time that Linux had X, I might have abandoned comput

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