He was dissatisfied with the computer's operating system (OS). His personal computer used MS-DOS, but Torvalds preferred the Unix operating system he had used on university computers.
In 1991, while a computer science student at the University of Helsinki (MS, 1996), he purchased his first personal computer (PC).
At the age of 10, I started experimenting with computer programming on my grandfather's Commodore VIC-20.
Linus Torvalds was born on December 28, 1969, in Helsinki, Finland.