I am curious to listen to other people whose lives have been changed by Linux.
I personally got into programming, and got the fun of the dev world, after I switched to Linux from windows, about 1 year back.
What is your story with Linux? I am curious to know.
Please comment. (but possibly keep it brief)
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Linux for me has been nothing but frustrations in recent years, to the point I've removed it from every machine I own. Doing system administration work has become more and more of a hassle with it. I had a few FreeBSD boxes for redundancy of some services running on Linux. Over time, it became longer and longer amount of time to troubleshoot and fix issues that would arise on the Linux boxes, yet shorter and shorter on the FreeBSD boxes. After several years of this progression, I've made the full shift over to FreeBSD for all of my servers, with no intent on ever looking back.
It has made me learn so many things , which no other system would have made me acheive I guess.
Started using it in first year of my engineering, it was an hassle at start for like a few months, Ubuntu didn't support my touch-pad so it was frustrating, but never gave up. I switched to mainline kernel, talked with few people on kernel development forums, and the guys helped me solve my issue (it took sometime, but it was worth the wait), I am into Linux because of the community and my love for open source and privacy..
I am never looking back to the hell that windows is....
Linux has made my life so much easier with the command line. i am a terminal freak, i love terminals cuz it is so much easier to get stuff done on the terminal. and yea, tiling window managers are awesome
i use arch btw
I got my first PC in 2000 (a hand-me-down), and morally objected to pirating windows. A friend gave me a CD with RedHat 6.0 (before RHEL was a thing) on and the rest is history.