What got me into linux and subsequently out real fast was the time when my winmodem <yeah I said it> took a dump on itself. so to trouble shoot I tinkered with the command line and other settings from IRQ settings dma to down right configuring the modem from the command line. then I broke down and got red hat ( way out of my league here) so I switched to mandrake. that was a bit easier to work with on the other hand I still had my original winmodem issues and I learned how crappy M$haft really was under the hood. being bored, I tinkered with mandrake for a while untill I got bored with it. with no real meaningfull access to the internet and being isolated so to say from exploring all the cool things you can do with linux I broke down and got another computer.which had windows xp ( that was all around eight years ago, and after serving as my file server and torrent seed box among other things, I wiped the hard drive reinstalled U.E 1.9 and donated it to my wife's cousin this past week
) in late 2006 what got me back into linux was my loathing for vista so I googled alternate operating systems. and I saw this long list of mostly linux OSes pop up so after reading, and reading, and reading. a few caught my eye. saw the compiz cube and thought, this blows vista outta the wattah!! so I narrowed my search down to OSes that were rather easy and had compiz already installed. ( was not at the time too comfortable wit downloading and installing stuff) so I opted for sabayon. tinkered with it for a while and saw ultimate 1.4 and thought hmmm thats a lot of hype and a big arsed download and besides, who wants a christmas OS throughout the whole damn year? Boy was I stoopid... well sabayon didn't have the spunk I needed, but did recognize my internal card big whoop their. so I installed Ubuntu 7.04 and thought OMG who the hell puts orangutan orange as a desktop back ground ? but hey they have more stuff and seem to be better supported and more friendly/knowledgeable than the frenchie sabayon guys. so I stayed untill I itched for more. enter U.E 1.7 for me the distro had just dropped and took days off the main server it seems like ( I was not a torrent advocate at the time ) downloaded it burned and installed and went " Hellyeahthisbesomecoolsh!tnow" .
And thats how I got here.