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Happy 19th Birthday, Ubuntu!
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I'll forever have a soft spot for Unity. Ubuntu 14.04 was my gateway drug into Linux.
Dual booting Windows XP and Ubuntu 12.04 on my parents desktop.
I broke the boot loader so many times that my mom learned what GRUB was just so she was sure she could yell at me and it wasn’t just our ancient desktop finally dying.