The first time I set hands to a personal computer was in 1979; it was the boss's son's old Atari with a word processing module. We got an IBM PC the next year and I learned the concepts of programming from writing scripts in Lotus 123, ver 1, not 1A. Back then, DOS was at 2.0, machines used 5" floppies, there were no hard drives, and MS Word 1.0 had a separate disk for the spell checker. I've had a PC to play with ever since either at work or home.

Now I'm retired, I have grandkids, I sew and embroider, etc., and I do all the maintenance on all our Windows PCs at home, because my retired mainframe COBOL-programmer husband dislikes the concept of multitasking and has other things to do than learning how it all works.

I have two machines still running XP which is nearly at end of life, so, rather than trash them both, I'm giving Ubuntu a shot to make them run faster/better without trying to replace parts.