I have always been interested in computers, and would find myself hanging out with the Computer Science students instead of the Aviation Management or Business Management students I was a part of. At home and at work I have been largely self-teaching myself using computers starting with Excel and Access with VBA through ASP and SQL at work. Thankfully my current employer values education, and so I have been taking classes and not only learning the technology, but un-learning what I have been doing wrong over the years. At home, though, I have been teaching myself Linux, system administration, networking and the overall method of migrating our system from Windows to Linux. I am involved in the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS.org) I have the opportunity to take what I've learned the hard way and hopefully help others.. I have been enjoying Open Source for a while now, and I am hoping to get a better understanding of the entire model and application.
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Thank you for taking the time to put this down. It may or may not have been easy to do it, but the impact it may have should be well worth it.
How are you doing now? Is this something that you "get over" or is it something you "recover from" over a long period of time?
Great article.
I don't have anything so new as to have USB C (except maybe my phone) so I am glad to hear Linux is compatible with it now.
What I've liked is that as I get old, used hardware I can usually rely on Linux to make it useful again.
For hardware, I generally go between Ubuntu-based and Fedora. When one doesn't work, the other may and it seems they almost take turns. I haven't had a problem in a long time (since the Broadcom wireless requiring a separate download days) until now with an AMD video card. That is also, in part, due to learning how to work with those drivers since I haven't had a problem like this in about 15 years!