[Esoterith]

Its what got me motivated to actually learn to program rather than game.

[Nil]

Thanks for sharing everybody. Convinced me to give Linux a chance again. Although this time maybe with something other than Ubuntu (wasn't it just found vulnerable recently?). I'll probably try a few out in a VM first, and possibly dual boot if I decide I really enjoy one of them.

[Blink]

It got me to learn and to leave my initial comfort zone (the edge of my current comfort zone is machine learning). It also got me to join the open-source movement and be more aware of privacy and security.

Now that I think about it, I might not even be here without Linux.

[BORW3]

Windows gives you windows, Linux gives you the full house.

[Yuro]

Windows and macOS gave me paranoia. Linux gave me a new online life. I got a job due to Linux.

[insidious]

Its what got me motivated to actually learn to program rather than game.

I relate with this on a spiritual level. There are barely any games for Linux and it really helps me focus when i'm doing work. Nowadays literally the only thing I log in to windows for is to Game or use Photoshop.

Linux has helped me tremendously in my Computer Science major at University. I started using linux Junior year of highschool and learned it pretty well by the time I graduated.

My universities servers use Linux, many classes are focused on programming in C or assembly and linux is absolutely the best environment for that kind of development. The OS class I just took used MINIX as an example OS and, guess what, MINIX uses a variation of the UNIX kernel. Already being familiar with alot of the functions of Linux made OS a breeze.

Linux introduced me to so many amazing dev tools: git, gcc, cc, i3 (for productivity), vim, and the entire OSS community, weeb wallpapers. That was invaluable and is helping me to this day in ways Windows never could