Interesting, I'm old enough to have grown up before the scourge of Wintel PCs in the 90s. Had a Commodore Vic-20 instead. You'd hit the power button and about 5 seconds later a BASIC interpreter started. There was no complicated debugging to be done to get it working.

Still, I learned to manage/hate computers by the Win '95 era and grow to love them again by the time Linux became tolerable about 10 years later.