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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I'm going through a little bit of the opposite right now. I've been running Linux at home and just got a Windows 7 machine that I am trying to set up (and getting frustrated)!
I can't do "this", or I can't do "that" because I don't have the "right version", and the constant attempts to sell or to register some piece of crapware reminds me of how easy I've had it for the past few years!
Putting a working, full-blown Linux would be great to see. Currently other than Android there are no options and so people are stuck with the App-store list of limited applications while a whole world of apps are available for the Linux platform.
Plus with the recent changes in the Gnome 3 and the Unity desktop environments, they seem to be a good fit for tablet use.
I'm tempted, if I can get my hands on a $99 one!