Brian Rogers

53 points

Utah, USA

Working jobs ranging from technical support for web host providers to web development and consulting, Brian has slowly been expanding his skill set on top of many thing open source. He's used Fedora, Ubuntu, ElementaryOS, and Arch, but has settled on Fedora as his daily driver.

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Sink or swim is one way to learn Linux

The year was 2005: I was just out of high school and living on my own. My sister and her husband came to visit, and on my way out to work one morning while they were in town…

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captbrogers

22 Jan 2016

Sink or swim is one way to learn Linux

I wouldn't recommend it for everyone. It was certainly a special case because of the nature of my relationship with him. We've known each other for many years. From an outside perspective it really was a jerk move. Because I had known the guy for over 15 years at that point, it was completely fine. I actually thanked him for doing it, because if he hadn't done it that way I probably wouldn't have started using Linux much less stuck with it.