for gratis or other reasons ?

  • Have you been a distro hopper ?
  • What is your favorite Linux distro ?

EDIT : Thanks for all the comments so far. Heartwarming really!

  • nick
    30·
    6 months ago

    I like to tinker and learn how things work, and windows ME blue screened on my one time too many, so I picked up Linux in 1998. Redhat box from compusa, if anyone remembers that place.

    And that’s when my life changed; using the skills I taught myself i got well paying jobs as a sysadmin and then as software developer and now I’m an “infrastructure engineer” (I write terraform to manage cloud infrastructure and i do other sysadmin stuff ).

    It’s paid off!

    • lemmyreaderOPEnglish
      30·
      6 months ago

      I like to tinker and learn how things work, and windows ME blue screened on my one time too many, so I picked up Linux in 1998.

      Nice. So you’re an old timer :)

      Redhat box from compusa, if anyone remembers that place.

      compusa does ring a bell. Suddenly reminds me of InfoMagic though. Here’s a photo found with a search engine.

      https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e5e35c9d-ee5f-42a3-8a48-7109858e0ca6.jpeg

      And that’s when my life changed; using the skills I taught myself i got well paying jobs as a sysadmin and then as software developer and now I’m an “infrastructure engineer” (I write terraform to manage cloud infrastructure and i do other sysadmin stuff ).

      Awesome.

    • Roberto
      10·
      6 months ago

      Must be weird realizing that you owe your livelihood to Windows ME.

    • nick
      10·
      6 months ago

      Mostly daily drive macOS for work / personal stuff (the ease of windows guis with the underpinnings of “Linux” [bsd]), but I have a home lab running a bunch of Linux stuff, my own infra in digital ocean (Debian), and windows for games. I’m not an os absolutist, they each have their place.