Linux

I recently needed to pull a retired hard drive from an old, no longer working box. This HD contained an ancient copy of Red Hat 9 that had been continually patched since Red Hat 6 in order to support an ancient build of Netscape's Directory Server and Messaging Server products.

I am saddened that the Microsoft product Windows has returned to my life. I was raised on Apple ][ machines, and later Macintosh (512, Plus, SE, etc). Eventually I began using cheap x86 boxes with Xenix on them, and begged and borrowed UNIX shell accounts from my friends that were attending UCSC. Windows was unavoidable though. I was forced to use Windows 95 or Windows NT on company issued laptops beginning around 1996. I hated everything about it. I hated the Plug & Pray support. I hated the Registry. I hated the interface. I hated it all.