I guess I'm more of a Group 1 member. I came from Windows, but have worked extensively in MS-DOS. I only use the command line in Linux because the GUI version is even more cumbersome to learn.

I'm a mixture of all 3 groups. But I do know what command line is, and I do use it in my regular basis. Therefore, I'm not afraid of it. I do have a very old computer (not very, very old, but still can't play DOOM 2 because it lags) and I learned a lot just by trying to get it working (every single time I turn it on). But however I do have a new mechine.

I'm a C-64 -> 286 DOS/Win3.0 user

I'm also a mixture of all three.

the amiga 4000.. that was much more powerfull than my 1200.

the A1200 came as standard with 2MB ram, and one 1.44" floppy.
and i spent a small fortune on a 512MB hard drive (which fitted all my data and programs with 400 meg to spare)

I think I did my way through all the three kinds slowly. I did, start with a PC-XT, long, long ago. It had no hard-drive, so you had to boot it with a disk, then insert another one with an application.(I've played Outrun a lot on it...ghehe). It used those big disks, 5.14(?) I think, of low density. As I was pretty young, and this computer was my uncles, I could not learn much, but I could rename and create directories on a dos shell . My real thing with computers started with Win95, so I totally forgot Dos and prompts. I've been using Linux for what... almost two years intensively now and with Linux and Windows I worked my way up to programming .. So 2,1 and 3 for me. I fit all categories

I loved the original kingsquest.

My first was an IBM 8086 (still have it and still running no less).

I too fit a little of all three categories, with some angry militantism on the side.

I came to Linux because I love to tweak things, and there is only so much you can tweak in Windows before it goes down in a ball of flames. That and as Microsoft took more and more of the command line away, they took more and more of my loyalty too.

I first started using AppleIIe's and 386's. I really liked DOS and Win3.1 back in the day. I still remember how to get around and everything with DOS, but the whole Win95 thing turned me off. It wasn't until Sony announced that they were going to launch a Linux kit for Playstation 2 that I got interested in Linux. Now I consider myself something more than a Newbie, but I still need help quite a bit for fixing some little things. So I guess that I don't truely fall under one of those three categories. I grew up using Win3.1 and Apple IIe's, playing games like Donald Duck's Playground, Wolfenstein 3d, Stunts, Keen, Captin Comic, and the like. Keep in mind, I was 5 when I was playing those games, too.