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Did you choose for Linux for freedom or ... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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for gratis or other reasons ?

Have you been a distro hopper ?
What is your favorite Linux distro ?

EDIT : Thanks for all the comments so far. Heartwarming really!

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[–] nick@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I like to tinker and learn how things work, and windows ME blue screened on my one time too many, so I picked up Linux in 1998. Redhat box from compusa, if anyone remembers that place.

And that’s when my life changed; using the skills I taught myself i got well paying jobs as a sysadmin and then as software developer and now I’m an “infrastructure engineer” (I write terraform to manage cloud infrastructure and i do other sysadmin stuff ).

It’s paid off!

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

I like to tinker and learn how things work, and windows ME blue screened on my one time too many, so I picked up Linux in 1998.

Nice. So you're an old timer :)

Redhat box from compusa, if anyone remembers that place.

compusa does ring a bell. Suddenly reminds me of InfoMagic though. Here's a photo found with a search engine.

And that’s when my life changed; using the skills I taught myself i got well paying jobs as a sysadmin and then as software developer and now I’m an “infrastructure engineer” (I write terraform to manage cloud infrastructure and i do other sysadmin stuff ).

Awesome.

[–] Roberto@mujico.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Must be weird realizing that you owe your livelihood to Windows ME.

[–] nick@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

lol seriously

[–] nick@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

Mostly daily drive macOS for work / personal stuff (the ease of windows guis with the underpinnings of “Linux” [bsd]), but I have a home lab running a bunch of Linux stuff, my own infra in digital ocean (Debian), and windows for games. I’m not an os absolutist, they each have their place.