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!
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!
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.
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.