Been playing with electronics since the 1960's, and with mainframe computers since the early 70's. Built a MITS Altair 8800 in '75 and maybe a dozen IMSAI 8080's over the next few years. Was exposed to Linux when it first came out but wasn't able to run it due to hardware factors. Sometime around the 2004-2005 timeframe I started running Ubuntu and have been running Linux exclusively as my personal OS ever since. I have played around with many distributions, but for my personal use, almost exclusively Debian-based.