Why I switched from Mac to Linux: 
In 1994, my family bought a Macintosh Performa 475 as a home computer. I had used Macintosh SE computers in school and learned to type with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, so I’ve been a Mac user for well over 25 years. Back in the mid-1990s, I was attracted to its ease of use. It didn’t start with a DOS command prompt; it opened to a friendly desktop. It was playful.
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