I’ve been involved in the field of electronics since the late 1960s, while in high school. Built a 5-tube radio receiver from a schematic diagram of a popular vacuum tube radio in use at the time. I joined the US Air Force in 1972 and received excellent training in two-way radio repair. Left the Air Force in 1981 and worked in consumer electronics for the next 17 years before cross-training into the field of computer repair. I received CompTIA A+ certification in February 2000 and started a computer repair company in Montana in July 2001. I retired in 2017 after 50 years in the electronics industry, and moved to Australia. Now that I no longer need to keep up with Microsoft Windows for the sake of my customers (in all my years in the computer repair field, the number of customers I serviced who were Linux users could be counted on one hand) I decided to ditch Windows and transition my personal computers to Linux. Running both my desktop and laptop computers on Linux Mint v22.1. I’ve also installed it on an old Toshiba laptop I bought new in 2009, and just installed Linux Q4OS on an old Acer Aspire 1 netbook with only 2GB RAM, on which I had previously run Windows 7 Pro. It now dual boots the Win 7 and Q4OS.