another pointless poll...

[monkieie]

But is it really?

How old were you all before you finally found your way around to using Linux for the first time?

[bensexson]

Of course I was 19 when it was created.

[monkieie]

:---) alright - own up. WHO is the child genius??? :---)

I just KNEW that some clever-clogs would click on that one! :lol:

[Lord Illidan]

I'd like to meet the Child genius.. who is s/he?

I was 15 when I started out...Seems like a million years ago!

[MaximB]

wow...hard question...I can't remmember...
I think it was about 1-2 months ago... :)
I was only 22 years old back then....the good old days...

[djsroknrol]

I was 48 when I first played with *nix. I've been playing with it on and off for 2 yrs now...can't tell you how old I am..:-#

[monkieie]

I was 48 when I first played with *nix. I've been playing with it on and off for 2 yrs now...can't tell you how old I am..:-#

nice to see that I'm not the oldest fart here though \\:D/

you do know what they says though?

You're only as old as the woman you feel ;)

[aysiu]

As someone in the 20-30 category, I have to say it's very encouraging to see how many people started Linux as teenagers. The Linux bug is getting people young, I guess!

[Lord Illidan]

As someone in the 20-30 category, I have to say it's very encouraging to see how many people started Linux as teenagers. The Linux bug is getting people young, I guess!

Perhaps because we are more of a technological oriented generation? Techo-geeks...
Though, I have to say, a teenager with an ipod is not a technogeek, just one of the masses!

[rfruth]

Too old, should have started using Linux sooner ...

[monkieie]

Perhaps because we are more of a technological oriented generation? Techo-geeks...
Though, I have to say, a teenager with an ipod is not a technogeek, just one of the masses!


If I had a child I would rather have them playing with linux than with an iPod. *Sigh* but I suppose that kids would want both :rolleyes:

[Lord Illidan]

Just install linux on their ipod, and let them play doom on it... My sister just bought an ipod nano today... My fingers are itching to install linux on it, but she won't let me!!

[monkieie]

Just install linux on their ipod, and let them play doom on it... My sister just bought an ipod nano today... My fingers are itching to install linux on it, but she won't let me!!


wouldn't that void the warranty from the thing?

[Lord Illidan]

wouldn't that void the warranty from the thing?

yep, that's why she won't let me install it... damn it... It is pretty cool.

[monkieie]

yep, that's why she won't let me install it... damn it... It is pretty cool.

:cool:

[djsroknrol]

Cool...There's another 40+ user in here..:)...now I don't feel so bad...but who is the pamper spokesman?

[monkieie]

...but who is the pamper spokesman?

I doubt very much that they are going to own up but that's not really the reason that I put it up there :D

[Lord Illidan]

I can't wait until someone comes in who has beeen reincarnated!

[monkieie]

I can't wait until someone comes in who has beeen reincarnated!

well I have seen in another post that the community here possesses Buddhists (amongst others). So who knows?

[Iandefor]

I first gave Linux a go when I was 12, I think.

I was a little over 1 year old when Linus first announced he was working on a new kernel :).

[cstudent]

Cool...There's another 40+ user in here..:)...now I don't feel so bad...but who is the pamper spokesman?

Count me too. I was 45 when I first tried Linux. I was 23 when I first used a computer.

[monkieie]

I was a little over 1 year old when Linus first announced he was working on a new kernel :).

...and you actually remember this? 8)

[monkieie]

Count me too. I was 45 when I first tried Linux. I was 23 when I first used a computer.

I was 21 when I first borrowed an old 386 with a whole 10Mb hard-drive. This thing even had a colour monitor :-({|=

[Iandefor]

...and you actually remember this? 8) I don't need to :). Wikipedia entry for 1991, month of August:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991#August

[monkieie]

where would we be without Wiki & Google, eh?

[Iandefor]

where would we be without Wiki & Google, eh? A very sad world.

:-D

[Skia_42]

Haha, it's cool to see the age differences of users of Ubuntu. A true community needs multiple generations...

[monkieie]

I do find the tendancy rather interesting though - very surprising that there are less 30-40s than 40+ here.

Still, it is early days yet. Let's see what else we get in the way of voting.

[xtacocorex]

My first semester in college, when I was 17 (6 years ago), I was introduced to Linux in my beginning FORTRAN class.

It wasn't until 2 years later that I started getting an interest in running it on my own computer.

[richbarna]

1994 Suse (couldn't even get it connected to the internet) :)

[beercz]

Using Linux for 6 years and I'mm 44 now - another "oldie" :-)

[Derek Djons]

At the age of 17 and a 56K modem I asked my mother to buy SuSE Linux for me. At that time the retail price was 179 guilder / 80 euro. My mother paid it happily :)

[matthew]

I do find the tendancy rather interesting though - very surprising that there are less 30-40s than 40+ here.I'm one of them. I was 34 when I started using Linux. I need to confess something, though. I was first exposed to Unix in a university programming class 17 years earlier and used it for a while in college. Then I had no significant interaction with any form of *nix again for about 13-14 years.

[Blondie]

Well when I first used a computer it was a Sinclair Spectrum and I was 12. Linux didn't exist. My niece has used Linux (for games) at the age of three. :D

[monkieie]

Well when I first used a computer it was a Sinclair Spectrum and I was 12. Linux didn't exist. My niece has used Linux (for games) at the age of three. :D

oh lordy, don't get me going about Sinclair :o

I was weaned as a wee lad on a Sinclair ZX81 (1kb Ram) - but we went the whole hog and got a 16kb (:!:) expansion pack for it. Oh joy, block graphics, b&w and absolutely no sound. As a kid I spent hours typing basic into the damned thing, only to spend several more hours debugging, after which I discovered in the majority of the cases that it was a complete waste of time - the "game" was worthless ](*,) ](*,)

Do we really want our "computer resumees" (ie experience) posted here? Anybody interested? Or shall we change the tack where the going is still good? :-k

[djsroknrol]

Dont get me going on the Timex Sinclair ZX80 either...that was my first computer as well...boy does that date me...

[ComplexNumber]

i first used linux in about 1996/1997 when i was in my mid-20's.

[AndyCooll]

Cool...There's another 40+ user in here..:)...now I don't feel so bad...but who is the pamper spokesman?

Hmmmm ...there are quite a few of us "40+"ers in fact! :p

:cool:

[jimrz]

nice to see that I'm not the oldest fart here though \\:D/

you do know what they says though?

You're only as old as the woman you feel ;)

neither is dj

[djsroknrol]

Now I'm starting to feel a little younger. Thanks guys...=D>

[Stew2]

Another 30-40 yr. old here. Started with Mandrake 3 yrs. ago when I built my first computer. Went away from it (games :D ) until I found out about breezy. 37 now and loving ubuntu! :D

Regards,
Stew2

[ember]

Hmm ... I guess, I was 14, read: Shortly after I bought my first very own PC ;)

[monkieie]

Another 30-40 yr. old here. Started with Mandrake 3 yrs. ago when I built my first computer. Went away from it (games :D ) until I found out about breezy. 37 now and loving ubuntu! :D

Regards,
Stew2

so by the time I've gathered the same experience as you Stew2 I'll be the same age as you now ;)

Tell me something though, how long did you need to really "get into" Linux? This being my second week only I still feel a bit overwhelmed - me being a (ex) dedicated Win user...

[bruce89]

Now I'm starting to feel a little younger. Thanks guys...=D>

This makes me feel too young, 17 in a month's time.

[monkieie]

This makes me feel too young, 17 in a month's time.

count yoursel' lucky bruce - at least you're able to grow into Linux without being blunted by Windows. =P~

[Stew2]

so by the time I've gathered the same experience as you Stew2 I'll be the same age as you now ;)

Tell me something though, how long did you need to really "get into" Linux? This being my second week only I still feel a bit overwhelmed - me being a (ex) dedicated Win user...

I don't actually have 3 years experience with Linux, :D I just tried it for the first time three years ago and then did'nt have much to do with it again until I installed Breezy. I am very much still a newb! :) I became comfortable with it when I realized it wasn't Windows :D ! (actually I'm serious!) Or should I say when I realized it doesn't behave the same as Windows. Patience is key :D .

Regards,
Stew2

[monkieie]

:o

[djsroknrol]

I bow to you bruce89...Now, will someone help me up again...LOL....

[BigDave708]

I was 16 when I first tried Linux. :roll:

I started using computers when I got a computer with Windows 3.1, a whopping 30 mhz processor and 20mb hard drive. :cool:

[monkieie]

I bow to you bruce89...Now, will someone help me up again...LOL....

careful that you don't slip a disk, dj ;)





I was 16 when I first tried Linux. :roll:

I started using computers when I got a computer with Windows 3.1, a whopping 30 mhz processor and 20mb hard drive. :cool:

good ole 3.1....thinks weren't too bad back in those days - apart from installing and backing up from loads of floppies.

[bigken]

being using it for 9 months oh and bye the way im 45 never too old to learn ;)

[DoktorSeven]

First real exposure in my mid 20s... granted, Linux didn't exist until I was in my early 20s...

[Soarer]

Linux didn't exisit until I was in my mid-40s. I just rediscovered it at 51! I used to be a sysadmin for Unix Sys III at NCR and other places, so can still remember some of it. Its a lot better now, though :)

[Vlammetje]

less than a year ago :o
Foir some reason it seems like I've never done anything else (even though I'm still learning something everyday)

20-30

[cjm5229]

52, I'm 54 now, I can remember when I was in the Airforce, During the Vietnam War, we still had computers that used electromagnetic multivibrators as a byte. Being a truckdriver, though It has just been the last four years that I have stayed home enough to really learn about computers.

[Terracotta]

got a suse 9.1 at my 21st anniversary from a friend (who kinda loves windows, still trying to convert him) after trying fedora core 1 on a linux install fest (a few months before my birthday, oeh boy did those distros suck, started with ubuntu with hoary hedgehog fell in love with it right away...

But I remember when I was like 8 years old we had something with a 5 1/4" floppy and a green-white screen, where I looooooved to play a game with a pengiun, you kinda just had to walk and jump and be carefull for some balls that came falling down... Too bad the machine broke and I was too young to know what kind of machine it was, or to remember the name of the penguin game and my brothers, well they get pissed of with openoffice when they can't find how to switch their page to landscape because it's not the same as in MS Office, just to show, they won't remember what it was either... (youngest of four boys).

[helliewm]

Too old at 40. Should have found Linux sooner,

Helen

[rocknrolf77]

Far too late. Started with breezy. Have gone through a lot of different distros, but for some strange reason I always come back too ubuntu. :guitar:

[macogw]

About 6 months ago when I was 17.

My mom switched at Thanksgiving, and she's 46. She loves Ubuntu.