We tried sharing our conversion stories in a meeting once, but perhaps fast moving IRC chat was not the best place to share, so lets try now. I came to Linux on Slackware 3.5. Bad choice to start with. It was Winter 1998, and I had just gotten my first computer about 2 months before. I had barely used computers at all before then, and it was my first experience with the internet. But even after a short time using PC's I had already discovered that I was being held back by Windows. I had always had major curiosity with my PC-- always trying things to see what I could and couldn't do. I used the restore CD quite a bit. When I learned that I could use something besides Windows, I jumped on it. Unfortunately, Slackware, especially at verion 3.5, was not very good for new users. I could never get XFree86 to start, so it was all command line. Configuring an X server from the command line is pretty rough. So it was just about 2 days before I went back to Windows. As the years went by I tried various versions of RedHat and Mandrake, and finally started using Linux more than just to tinker with Fedora Core 1, but I was still primarily on Windows. When I first tried Gentoo in 2004, I started using it more than Windows, and with Ubuntu I finally went all Linux. I still use Windows here and there, but Ubuntu is home for me. I still try a few distros here and there, but none match what I want to do with my PC like Ubuntu. Your turn!!