In a period of ~5 years I reconditioned & handed out 10 laptops to kids of family members who: 1) didn't have the $ and; 2) didn't have the tech background to provide an option.
These were households where, either they were using malware-riddled pirated copies MSWin or they had nothing. Afterwards, they had solid, updated and speedy equipment.
They're adults now and, today, they're on a combination of Windows, Chrome OS or MacOS. Who cares?
The experience taught me two things:
*everything they learned while on Linux transferred seamlessly to other environments (no tech gap)
*it actually meant something to them /as children/ that their equipment was legitimate (i.e. no pirated stuff)
That last point speaks volumes to me about the importance of F/OSS and the distinction of "free as in free speech." On a lighter note: I spoke with one of the nieces, a couple of years back. She insisted missing the "good old days" when updates weren't such a nightmare.
Splitting of terminals has been a way of (operational) life for me since diving into virtualization ~5 years ago. I either use Remmina, a RDC or Tilix, a terminal emulator. I normally have 4 terminals up for any combination of local admin or admin'ing VMs, nested VMs and LXC containers.
I use Remmina for established resources; addresses which are largely fixed. Tilix is wonderfully nimble for the more fluid test & dev environments and has extensive configurability to give ample visual cues as to where one is.
As far as the splitting of terminals, the principal value to me is this gives me a fairly good (albeit ad hoc) "single pane" view of what I'm working on.
I just want to echo Si's comments.
In a period of ~5 years I reconditioned & handed out 10 laptops to kids of family members who: 1) didn't have the $ and; 2) didn't have the tech background to provide an option.
These were households where, either they were using malware-riddled pirated copies MSWin or they had nothing. Afterwards, they had solid, updated and speedy equipment.
They're adults now and, today, they're on a combination of Windows, Chrome OS or MacOS. Who cares?
The experience taught me two things:
*everything they learned while on Linux transferred seamlessly to other environments (no tech gap)
*it actually meant something to them /as children/ that their equipment was legitimate (i.e. no pirated stuff)
That last point speaks volumes to me about the importance of F/OSS and the distinction of "free as in free speech." On a lighter note: I spoke with one of the nieces, a couple of years back. She insisted missing the "good old days" when updates weren't such a nightmare.
Here's to choice.
-C