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Free Software Magazine: 2000 Was the “Year of the Linux Desktop” for Me

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Terry Hancock
May 31, 2006

“I still see people arguing about whether GNU/Linux is ‘ready
for the desktop.’ The truth is, it really depends…

“For me, I switched almost ‘cold turkey’ from Windows 3.1 to
Debian ‘Slink’ in about 1999 or 2000 (at the time, I liked to say I
‘upgraded from Win 3.1 to GNU/Linux’)…”

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