Hello, i was just curious on this.
How old are you now, and how old were you when you began using Gnu/Linux

I am 22, and began using Gnu/Linux when i was 21.

When i say 'began' i mean seriously.

"oh i tried it seven years back but i never got into it, but two years ago i tried it again and got hooked"

the answer here would be, two years ago, not seven. just for clarification purpose.

I'm 25 now, I encountered Linux at 16, began using as a primary OS at 18, and began using it 100% exclusively around my 21st birthday. Freedom to drink, freedom to compute.

started using ubuntu 8.04 with beryl when i was 11 , now i am 14 , so 3 years ago.


Really, best linux distro i have ever used, ever!

Now i switched back to xp since i am still searching for a distro to detect my dell mini pci 1150 wireless card and work on 256 mb ram.

I really miss that old laptop i had , it was the best, a gateway m68 48 with 4gb of ram. Those were the good times

I am 45 now, I started using linux when I was 27 (that was in 1994). I have used windows in those days solely for creating graphs, printing, writing to CDs (or magnetic tapes). Documents were written using LaTeX (TeX briefly). Couldn't afford Desktop PCs in those initial days (being a scientist, I had access to several machines with unix and windows), my first laptop was purchased in 2001 and it immediately sported the latest RedHat 7.2. I started using Ubuntu in 2008 (I had a desktop by then and played around with many linux distros, in different configurations - one OS on internal drive, another on external drive and so on). With age, these days, I am more inclined to use an OS that gets installed and configured in a jiffy so I can start working - I am seriously thinking of moving out of Ubuntu (still on 11.04 due to Unity lack of configuration alternatives) - perhaps to #! (crunchbang) linux.

28 now. Dual booted slackware when i was 14 or so, then went back to windows.
At around 19 i got back into it, and have been exclusive Linux at around 21/22.

56 now, started in 1996 with redhat 4.0
Windows free since 1997.

Kind regards

49 years old. Started with Suse 4.2 in 1996 (being 33 at the time) and, like repo, Windows free since 1997.

66¾ now, and started using GNU/Linux when I was 60½.
EDIT
No, started when I was 59½. Late 2004, with Slackware 10.0 (the last release to include Gnome).

I'm in my late 20s and I started using it about the time I joined this forum 2004-2005 or so.

I'm quite paranoid, so I don't like to give details.

65 now and started when I was 52 (1998) with RedHat followed by mainly Debian, Slackware, and Ubuntu

I'm 46 now, started with Slackware in '98 or '99, so in my mid 30's. I was mostly a Mac user before that, got my first computer with Windo$e95, then learned about Linux and had to try it out.

I'm almost 33 and started using Linux when I was 26. It must sound weird to all the seasoned linux users here but my first distro was a 64-bit one (Fedora Core 4) back in 2005.

I don't feel quite so old-phart now. ...

I started using Linux in the very early "uh-oh's" when I (correctly...) surmised that this was a very important skill to know, and to know very thoroughly. (I am, for some reason, somewhat of "an operating-system junkie.") Today, nearly all of my work is in Linux/Unix and I find Microsoft Windows to be insufferably confining. (Yet, I switch between various environments all day every day because that's what paying customers want.)

I'm 34 now, and started in 2004, at the age of 26, so I've been using Linux for about 8 years. Although I use almost exclusively Linux at home (except for the occasional gaming), I still feel I have a lot to learn.

Started in early 90,s when I was 50, am now 70. Red Hat then Mandrake. Useing Fedora now and love it.