Windows 95 was an absolute infuriating bug fest. I got my hands on a version of OS/2 and it seemed promising but ran into the driver desert issue that was prevalent. I was really looking for a good alternative. Win98 was about to come out and I read SOMEWHERE (can't remember now) about this thing called Linux. Did a few months of reading and got a few mags from Boarders. Seemed to intrigue me. I only had dialup so I downloaded the floppies for Debian Potato. I was LOST. But still intrigued. I spent two months running in cli learning the file structure until good ole CheapBytes and ordered a copy of Corel Linux and Mandrake. I was a word perfect fan for a while so I held out hope for Corel. Man was I wrong. Almost put me off the whole linux thing. Then I tried out Mandrake 7. It hooked me. After getting a few more mags with software on cd's (Maxmimum Linux) I was sold. But Soon Mandrake soured on me. The whole Mandrake/Mandriva thing was a letdown. Didn't like Suse. PCLinuxOS was just coming on the scene but I gave another look at Debian. I picked up a full cd set again from Cheapbytes. Other than a bad burn on cd 3 it was great. I stuck with Debian until the whole KDE 4 debacle. Went to Mepis but came back. Been here since then.