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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
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I was 7 when I first properly used Linux. My dad somehow found a prebuilt which came with SuSE - I assume version 7 or thereabouts. It didn't last long, sadly, before we switched over to Windows XP.
Then at age 14/15, I ran Ubuntu 10 as my daily driver on my netbook. Then #! for a bit.
Used Windows 7 and 10 until... I guess age 26/27 since that's what we're doing, when I switched to Debian full-time. (Via MX-Linux, which didn't quite work out)
#! Linux was amazing. So simple in the UI, but plenty of features if you wanted to set them up.