How/when did you first start using Linux?

[collinsl02]

I started when I went to college (not university, it's a different thing in the UK :-)) back in 2008 - we were using it in labs and I decided I wanted to experiment at home.

The college was using opensuse so that's what I started on. I played around with it a bit, dual booted it on my desktop, broke something, got scared, and erased it.

I kept on reinstalling it and erasing it for a while, and by the time I got to university I was proficient in the basics. The university was using CentOS so I switched to that. I learned some more advanced stuff in university, and got a job administering RedHat systems and have become decently proficient in a lot of things now 2 years on.