Haha, it's something you're either gonna love or hate. I am a Unix lover, and before I even started I was a Unix lover. I seen a solution, and I knew I needed to master the solution. Here was my ordeal:
Sure, I had a Windows computer, but I knew it didn't handle things efficiently. One day I seen a website that said "Ran Entirely on FreeBSD". I then clicked on it to see what it was. A performance-based server platform. I knew I had to figure this out and master it. This was what I wanted, it was amazing.
I immediately began the first step, trying to figure out how to make a bootable floppy. I created it, popped it in, then I had to burn a disc, did that and attempted to figure out everything in the setup options.
Blah blah blah, long story short, need is the master of invention (or in this case, learning).