I suddenly vividly remember putting my mom’s Chromebook into developer mode and installing crouton on it so I could play Minecraft.
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I doubt there would be much difference. I was started on an old brick-style Mac before switching to PC and am now the most technical person in almost any group I enter. It's not as if Mac devices are entirely void of programmers and other technical users.
Yeah, Apple computers are disproportionately common at tech conferences and meetups.
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My family’s first computer was a 68k Mac, specifically a Quadra 605. I tried (and failed) to teach myself C++ using that system at the tender age of 9, but eventually moved over to Windows PCs. Had a Linux-based web server running on spare parts as a teen, though, and did succeed at teaching myself PHP and later Python well enough to hack together my very own blog software. Not very good blog software, mind you, but the critical thing was that it worked! Even spent a few years as and SMB sysadmin even though my degree is in [building] architecture.
Since then I’ve drifted away from the very deep end of tech world, but I would never say that first Macintosh stunted my skill.
(100% autistic tho, so ymmv)
I started on a Mac and now I'm an IT expert.
But that's because my next computer was a Dell.
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Lemmy Linux bros make me avoid Linux at all costs
I've been using pop OS for 5 years and barely understand anything at all, we're not all super nerds. I got it to save a bit of upfront money on a new build with the plan to buy windows when I needed it, never needed it.
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I enjoyed a lemmy moment in the thread about things the Canadian government needs to do to not be as dependent on the US and the first bullet point in a comment was switch to Linux
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Yeah I use Linux but I also hate people who shame people who use windows because it does what they need.
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My schools had this growing up. The old single button Macs(I remember this game too).
We didn’t have a computer in our house until I was ~8. It was blistering quick 400Mhz machine running windows…(Good ol’ slot load processors).
But the time I was ~11 I had built my own computer. Mother was kind enough to take a leap of faith and set a budget for the project. My parents are absolutely not tech people. So they had no idea what I was doing and could offer no assistance other than monetary. It worked out in the end though.
I work in the tech industry and I’ve had windows boxes, and even a few MacBook pros for work. We deploy stuff to Linux and windows. I have dual Xeon servers running Linux in the basement.
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I played education games on a Apple II in 1998; I was in the first grade.