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Likely not the best for merch: my first FOSS soft was DJGPP, in the DOS era. Tried to use BSD before that, but it was like 200 floppies, and never got it to work.
The thing that fully sold me though, was installing some drivers on RedHat 5.1, and seeing how "they recompile themselves! 🤯"... so dunno, was it rpm? make? gcc? kbuild?... hard to tell now.
Next thing was getting a second PC, installing a bare bones system, going into bash,
ls /bin
, and goingman [everything]
.I might still have some "man bash" stickers somewhere, used to have them on a few laptops over the years.