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You're 23.

You'd be a massive outlier if you'd spent more of your childhood reverse engineering an OS than playing games, or indeed any time reverse engineering an OS at all, and it wouldn't necessarily lead you to be any more successful than someone who didn't even look at a command prompt until the age of 23

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The nice thing about this, too, is that there's no real barrier (besides owning a personal computer) to reverse engineering an OS or learning computer science.

There's no incredibly high fees, there's no licensure to practice, and many of the educational materials are free. The original poster can start today if they'd like, using free resources like the Open Source Society University's curriculum: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science

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