I never really saw myself as a developer until I switched to linux. Don't get me wrong, Windows is fantastic, but I never really programmed with it. With my first Ubuntu, I spent at least 60% of my time on stackoverflow trying to unmess the stuff I'd messed up. I found myself using nano a lot, saving git and bash snippets on my phone and sites like hackerrank and codewars became very interesting to me.
When I made the connection was when I started discovering that most softwares I used on windows(which I would crack because I still can't afford to pay for it) had free alternatives on Ubuntu, I always wanted to understand why it was free and this led to me trying to understand open source. Nowadays when I search for plugins and softwares. I always include the term open source, Most results are usually small-knit communities with 2 devs Max and a lot of willing users. Small things like helping out with documentation and reporting bugs go a long way.
I never really saw myself as a developer until I switched to linux. Don't get me wrong, Windows is fantastic, but I never really programmed with it. With my first Ubuntu, I spent at least 60% of my time on stackoverflow trying to unmess the stuff I'd messed up. I found myself using nano a lot, saving git and bash snippets on my phone and sites like hackerrank and codewars became very interesting to me.
When I made the connection was when I started discovering that most softwares I used on windows(which I would crack because I still can't afford to pay for it) had free alternatives on Ubuntu, I always wanted to understand why it was free and this led to me trying to understand open source. Nowadays when I search for plugins and softwares. I always include the term open source, Most results are usually small-knit communities with 2 devs Max and a lot of willing users. Small things like helping out with documentation and reporting bugs go a long way.
Surprisingly most well known open-source software (especially desktop apps) consumes less memory than the proprietary one.