Well that's the end of an era; the last day using Windows on my desktop. When I wake up I'm installing Gentoo on it.
@renbymon I hope it's the start of a new era, and ideally a better one! I've been using Linux since 1995, and only used Windows when forced to (generally for work) since 2010.
@renbymon I do think in general things have become more difficult to manage nowadays, as previous flat text configurations were the way everything went and it was easy to see what did what, copy across machines and adjust as necessary, and that's become unpopular nowadays. It's probably easier to get started nowadays, though, as setup from scratch has improved no end in the last three decades!