Began to discover LaTeX in the early 2000 years.
First, a professor of mine gave me a sample of a commercial TeX editor for writing a BSc report. Enthusiastic, I used TeX for making the MSc report.
I found quickly afterwards, hacked copies of The LaTeX companion and The LaTeX graphics companion, encouraging me to work more and more with LaTeX.
During a PhD research period, I decided to invest myself with the TeX tool and capabilities, bought the unestimable LaTeX companion 2nd edition and still use in my teaching activities since the early 2010 years.
Successively I have been successfully working with MikTeX 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, portable MikTeX, with TeXnicCenter, overleaf and TeXmaker editors.