Same here! (Well, it wasn’t my first salary, but I bought it with my own money between high school and college, while everyone else was getting their parents to buy them their college PC.)
Athlon XP 1800+, 512MB RAM, pirated windows 2000, it was the first computer I ever built, and I learned Linux on it a few months later (RedHat 8, later Debian.)
Athlon XP 1800+, 512MB RAM, pirated windows 2000, it was the first computer I ever built, and I learned Linux on it a few months later (RedHat 8, later Debian.)