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So what did it take for you to go to Linux?
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I switched in 1997.
The internet was taking off, and it was built on Linux and un*ces. It was just a lot more fun.
Also, C-programming. M$ had just gotten protected memory in NT4.0, but a lot of applications just didn't run on NT. It'd take another three years before protected memory hit mainstream with win2k. No novice programmer wants their computer to bluescreen every time they do a tiny little out of bounds error.