At 21, I was pretty passionate about programming, but I had never dealt with a tar files. I was sticking with Windows because it just worked for me, and the barrier to installing a Linux on my PC seemed so huge (and they were. The first time I installed, it broke my FAT). It was just not worth it. Python works great on Windows, as does Corman Lisp.

I'm passionnate about programming, but computers and OSes are just a pain getting in my way.