MS Dos/IBM Dos, Windows,IBM OS1, Apple-Mac/IOS, Linux

[Brickwizard]

Having a clear out, I came across my set of MS dos and Windows 3 disks along with an odd couple of IBM compatible program 5" floppies.
This got me thinking, I have been playing around, Building, Repairing and. Using mainly desktop computers for now some 43 years as a hobby,
the strangest thing is that I have spent more of that time playing with and finally using Linux as my main drive for now some 21 of those years,
Not bad going.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Congrats! I hope those 21 years were not wasted into a single distro?

I'm not in 3rd age yet but I hope not to stick with Debian until end of my life, it would same mistake as sticking with Windows and believing it's the best OS in whole galaxy.

 

[Brickwizard]

I hope those 21 years were not wasted into a single distro?

If I could remember every build I have ever used/played with, I would not have a long enough bit of paper to list them on, Many of them didn't last, I was using Debian and Ubuntu, when a friend [windows software engineer] gave me a disk from one of his magazines of Mint 2, which was a cut above, and when Mint 3 came out I jumped to it as my main drive, but continued running up to 20 others at any one time for personal testing, but now I have LMDE as my main drive, Parrot on the laptop, and only about 6 others on my test drives.

 

[MikeRocor]

Having a clear out, I came across my set of MS dos and Windows 3 disks along with an odd couple of IBM compatible program 5" floppies.
This got me thinking, I have been playing around, Building, Repairing and. Using mainly desktop computers for now some 43 years as a hobby,
the strangest thing is that I have spent more of that time playing with and finally using Linux as my main drive for now some 21 of those years,
Not bad going.

Are sure you're not me? (You poor devil!)

I wrote my first BASIC program 43 years ago and started fooling around with Linux about half that long ago - although I could only claim it as my "main" OS for maybe the last ten years or so.

Yesterday I was digging through an old box and came across:

And I'll bet I could come up with a working 5.25" floppy drive.

 

[Brickwizard]

ah, that was the version developed by Microsoft and IBM jointly, just what I had on my IBM compatible .
as Mary Hopkins sang,

 

[MikeRocor]

While MS DOS 3.3 was pre-installed on my first "PC compatible", the pictured copy of "IBM DOS" probably came to me from someone's discard pile - Long ago, I had a use for a bunch of those sleeved three ring binders and ended up with more of them than I needed. Nowadays, if I can just keep a damned printer working, I might have a use for them again (barbaric as it might seem to do the dead tree thing).

 

[The Duck]

Apple, Linux, Windows

I'm not in 3rd age yet but I hope not to stick with Debian until end of my life, it would same mistake as sticking with Windows and believing it's the best OS in whole galaxy.

I've used many different Linux distros and to me Linux is Linux.

The Linux distros I've used and use all work good no one Linux distro worked any better than another Linux disto.

The only differences I've really found other than DEs is certain Linux distros offer certain unique features over other Linux distros.