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It's a pretty cool tale. At the time, my grandma had a computer. One day, Windows just refused to boot. Not that my grandma really needed the computer anyway. However, me, being the computer geek, learned about Ubuntu, a completely free (as in price) operating system. I flashed a USB and put it into the computer, hoping to fix the sleeping beauty. The installation went smoothly, and the first thing I decided to do was attempt to play Minecraft.
I found out that the performance of the computer doubled when using Ubuntu over using Windows (before it stopped working). Seeing this, I found the potential to install Ubuntu onto my own computer. I dual booted it with Windows and booted into Ubuntu whenever I wanted to play a game.
About a month later, I decided I wanted to undual-boot it and switch back to Windows, in fear of something breaking. I carelessly cleared the boot files and... The system failed to boot. What a suprise. I quickly and nervously pulled up a YouTube video on how to fix this, and the Windows boot installation loading took so long that I thought it was broken and I couldn't actually fix it. Luckily, it loaded, and after following instructions from the video, I got my Windows back (a shame, really.)
I decided to bring my grandma's computer home and put my all-in-one in the closet, to collect dust. I still kept Linux on it, trying new distros like Linux Mint and Arch!
That brings us here to today. I'm currently running Void at the time of writing this, but Gentoo is a close second. I like the speed, simplicity, and freedom on what goes and what doesn't go on my system. I can be sure that for every Windows computer I get, I'm going to install Linux on it.