As I learned, Windows dummifies you. That going from Dos 2.x to Win9x lost a lot of experience on command line stuff cause it wasn't used as much anymore. As to starting earlier, I would've liked to of to kept up with with my pc schooling back in High School (Apple Basic and Pascal) but I didn't. Was off to see the world, and become a grease monkey afterwards. For my son, his machine in Win98se only for his games. I'll reload and put Linux (Slackware 8) on it in the near future. He'll be 9 in December, should be a good age to start him off on.... Shawn Hans P. Christianson wrote: >I also wish I had been introduced to Linux earlier. I just started in >December. Microsoft stole 10 years of my life and I want them back!!! Nah. >I'd only waste them anyway. >