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tabtitle: Farewell to Windows Tour 2015
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<h1>Farewell to Windows Tour 2015</h1>
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<p>It has come time to bid Windows farewell. Once upon a time Windows was
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the only digital world I knew. It began when I was young, during the
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venerable 3.1 era. I remember booting up our family computer into DOS, and
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before starting Windows I could start Doom 2 or Keen's Dream, or any
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number of other games. That was my first interaction with a command line.
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My, my, how times have changed.</p>
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<p>From Doom 2 and Keen I went on to Baldur's Gate and Battlefield. I
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dabbled here and there in NES/Sega/SNES/Genesis stuff, but PC gaming
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always held my attention. The only exception to this was my Gameboy with
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Pokemon, because that game is literal crack to a 12 year old. Baldur's
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Gate held my attention like only a classic RPG can, and I remember
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pouring over the manual and this guidebook I had to learn as much as I
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could about the world the game created. Around this time I was also
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getting into Dungeons and Dragons (Satan's game!), so there was a
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definite mixture of digital and tabletop gaming. Battlefield, on the
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other hand, was introduced to me by my good friend Rob, and became a
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classic among my group of friends. Then, of course, Smash Bros became
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a thing and that was our game of choice. That and Soul Calibur; ah
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memories.</p>
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<p>It wasn't until relatively recently that I ever even tried gaming on
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Linux. My senior year of high school I was introduced to Linux by my
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friend Ben. That spawned the interest, but it was always secondary to
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my true love of computers, gaming.
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