The year was 2008. I recently got a hand-me-down PC from my grandparents. It was going swimmingly though it was a bummer being too weak for Roblox at the time (I was still a kid cut me some slack). And then the WinXP setup it came with shat itself to death and I had papers to do for school.

Looking for alternatives, I encountered this "Ubuntu 8.04" thing. There were a lot of growing pains but holy cow was it a better choice than resigning to Windows again. So many customization options; what better way is there for a terminally-online middle-schooler to express himself? Been using GNU/Linux in some shape or form ever since, never touching Windows voluntarily during that time.