My story starts in 2003 when I was taking an A+ certification training course my high school offered. One day a friend of mine/classmate brought in several CDs and said they had an operating system called Linux on them. I had never heard of Linux before this and so he did his best to explained though he didn't know much more than I did about it. The CDs collectively made up the installation disks for Mandrake. We took the entire class-day to install Mandrake and mess around with it a bit. At that...