Fun fact: Firefox was the first program I ever compiled. I’d just finished an online Python class and wanted to get involved in this open-source thing. Mozilla had some Python tasks but they still required a dev build of the browser. I was on Windows at the time.
It took me three days to figure out, and thinking about cygwin still makes me shudder.
Then I saw that the Linux instructions were just a one-line apt command for dependencies and then the build command. It looked magical.
This is what convinced me to move to Linux and exposed me to so much cool software and ideas. I never did end up contributing to Mozilla.
