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Farewell to Windows Tour 2015

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It has come time to bid Windows farewell. Once upon a time Windows was + the only digital world I knew. It began when I was young, during the + venerable 3.1 era. I remember booting up our family computer into DOS, and + before starting Windows I could start Doom 2 or Keen's Dream, or any + number of other games. That was my first interaction with a command line. + My, my, how times have changed.

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From Doom 2 and Keen I went on to Baldur's Gate and Battlefield. I + dabbled here and there in NES/Sega/SNES/Genesis stuff, but PC gaming + always held my attention. The only exception to this was my Gameboy with + Pokemon, because that game is literal crack to a 12 year old. Baldur's + Gate held my attention like only a classic RPG can, and I remember + pouring over the manual and this guidebook I had to learn as much as I + could about the world the game created. Around this time I was also + getting into Dungeons and Dragons (Satan's game!), so there was a + definite mixture of digital and tabletop gaming. Battlefield, on the + other hand, was introduced to me by my good friend Rob, and became a + classic among my group of friends. Then, of course, Smash Bros became + a thing and that was our game of choice. That and Soul Calibur; ah + memories.

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It wasn't until relatively recently that I ever even tried gaming on + Linux. My senior year of high school I was introduced to Linux by my + friend Ben. That spawned the interest, but it was always secondary to + my true love of computers, gaming.