Hi everyone! I'm RatcheT2498, I'm a 20yo student from Slovakia studying computer science. I really enjoy programming as a whole, but I've been in love with retro computing for about as long as I remember knowing how to use a computer  My favorite areas are low level - instruction sets (currently learning Motorola 68k, but I've dabbled in Mos 6502 and Zilog Z80 as well), hardware configurations, operating systems, but also compilers and programming languages. I also really like older games, though I don't play them as much as I used to. I found this forum from a YouTube video about the Vista extended kernel, and I joined because it inspired me to take on installing Windows Vista on one of my laptops.

I've got a main desktop and a main laptop, on both of which I dualboot a flavor of Linux and Windows 10 (Linux Mint Cinnamon on desktop, testing out Fedora on laptop). Other than that I have a few older laptops (a Toshiba Satellite C660 variant, sadly not currently working as it has no working battery and I lost the power adapter, and an ASUS X553MA which is currently my object of interest), plus a small collections of consoles and 8bit computers I've been a Sony fan for most of my life, hence the username, but I like some of Nintendo's games as well.

I think it's really cool that older operating systems are still getting the love that they deserve, even if using them can be difficult in the modern age.

(Also I realized later that I'd completely ignored forum etiquette and jumped into posting immediately after signing up - even if nobody noticed, sorry about that! Been a while since I last used a forum )

Hi @RatcheT2498, hello from Belgium and welcome to MSFN!  
I wish you to enjoy the forums!
Have a nice day.
hpwamr

Thank you Haven't had a lot of time recently but reading through this forum has been kind of addicting so far haha, lots of interesting things to learn

Welcome and see you around the forum when you have some free time, of course

@RatcheT2498 welcome, buddy!