![]() ![]() At my first job in 1993 our software was developed on Unix workstations for the Tandem platform. In college in the late 80s/early 90s I was introduced to Unix, and thought it was interesting. So Leo and Kate, 30 year old me thanks you for inspiring a young nerd to get into Linux and build a career around it. Leo let me know that Quake 3 ran really well on Linux and that I should try it out. I later got to go to a convention with my Dad and meet Leo Laporte and Kate Botello and get that burned disk of Linux signed by them. Ultimately, though, I found someone that shipped me a burned disk of it and the rest is history. I tried to use some software that would let you resume downloads part way through. I tried for weeks to download Red Hat Linux 5 or 6 on our crappy 56k connection. ![]() The Screen Savers became one of my favorite TV shows and introduced me to the idea that Windows wasn't the only operating system out there and that there was this thing called Linux. So, naturally, discovering a tv channel all about tech was like crack to me. I was super into computers my dad loved them and tinkering with them as well so he taught me a ton. I was pretty young, I had to have been at most 10 since ZDTv was still named that and not TechTv. PS: sorry if my english isn't as smooth as you're used to, it isn't my first language. So, yeah, let's just say that my mom was the main driving force, other than pure curiosity. Then, when i finally got my hands on a real pc, i finally was able to learn how to install it without breaking anything! So in the meantime i experimented with what i had on hand: first trying to install Ubuntu on a half baked powerpc, then on my playstation 2 (shockingly, it did boot into the installer, but couldn't get past the boot loader). I wanted to learn how to install it, and up until fourteen years old i didn't have a way to try that. So that day i thought "i wish i knew how to prevent this".įor some reason after that linux was a thought stuck in my head. My mother's sentiment was much different, she was very sad that all of her memories (photos of me and my family, small essays she had written, emails memorized locally) got lost in the process (at the time backups weren't common in my household). But still, i have to admit that playing tux racer was all that my child brain was interested in at the time, so not bad at all. But anyway, doing so, he managed to wipe ALL the hdd of our pc. Up until then, being 6 years old, all i've ever saw was Windows computers, so much that i thought that all computers must have had windows on em (a living nightmare, i know). ![]() When i was little my uncle tried installing Linux on our house PC. I hope I can find a good job in future about Linux. I know (a bit of everyone) Python, Golang, Java, C, C++, C# (from Windows), Objective-C (because I have a jailbroken iPhone, I am trying to make a tweaks) and JavaScript. I have a custom Arch Linux installer with XFCE desktop. I used openSUSE, Debian, Pardus (new iso with XFCE and GNOME), Linux Mint, Gentoo, Arch, Fedora, Manjaro (BSPWM, AWESOME, I3 and OPENBOX), Arch Labs, ArchCraft, Kubuntu, PiSi Linux and more! Now I am 14yo, happy Gentoo i3 and Arch i3 user. Then I don’t remember reason but I started using that Samsung Notebook. I need to wait for Brave (web browser) open for 5 minutes. I COMPLETELY forget Linux! (Yeah, I am an idiot) I installed wInDoWS 10. I LOVE IT! I use it around 2 months then my parents give me their old work computer (i3 540 and 4gb ddr3 ram). But some error occurred (I don’t remember what) and I can’t solve it. So I installed it and used it for 3 months. New isos are 64 bit.) Pardus (Turkish Debian based distro) on it. So I decided to install old (because pc is 32 bit. It’s OS is Windows 7 and it’s very very very very slow. I had a small Samsung Notebook (intel atom and ddr2 2gb ram). Thanks :) (Sorry for poor English :/)Įdit: THANKS ALL FOR COMMENTS! Here is mine story:Ģ years go started my journey. If you add something, please add in comments. So here are some questions: why did you choose Linux? (Lightweight, open-source, secure or something else) What’s happened something big while you use Linux? Why did you stop using Linux if you did? That’s all. I am making a little book (Umm we can say some notes) about Linux so I wonder how people started their “Linux Journey”. ![]()
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