> I started using Linux five years ago, mainly because I couldn’t figure out how to get Python working on Windows
Windows being by far the most dominant operating system from 97-2015 definitely exacerbated a dearth in knowledge among the young. In the early days internet access was not ubiquitous and shipping an operating system without even a primitive programming environment definitely lead to missed years of programming for me.
I learned a lot about windows, lots of UIs and how the system was constructed somewhat, but no visual studio, no functioning compiler in base and the only interpreter being fucking batchfiles with no docs… come on…
Windows being by far the most dominant operating system from 97-2015 definitely exacerbated a dearth in knowledge among the young. In the early days internet access was not ubiquitous and shipping an operating system without even a primitive programming environment definitely lead to missed years of programming for me.
I learned a lot about windows, lots of UIs and how the system was constructed somewhat, but no visual studio, no functioning compiler in base and the only interpreter being fucking batchfiles with no docs… come on…