David Both is an Open Source Software and GNU/Linux advocate, trainer, writer, and speaker. He has been working with Linux and Open Source Software since 1996 and with computers since 1969. He is a strong proponent of and evangelist for the "Linux Philosophy for System Administrators."
He has written articles for magazines including, Linux Magazine, Linux Journal, and OS/2 Magazine back when there was such a thing. He currently writes prolifically for OpenSource.com. He particularly enjoys learning new things while researching his books and articles, building his own computers, and helping his grandchildren build their computers. He has found some interesting
and unusual ways of problem solving, including sitting on one computer on which he was working.
David has published five books with Apress. Four solo works, “The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins,” August 2018, and a three volume self-study training course, “Using and Administering Linux — From Zero to SysAdmin,” released in December, 2019. He has also written one book with co-author Cyndi Bulka, "Linux for Small Business Owners" that was released in 2022.
David currently lives in Raleigh, NC, with his amazing and supportive wife, Alice.
He can be reached via email at LinuxGeek46@both.org or on Mastodon at @LinuxGeek46@linuxrocks.online.
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What a great story, Lauren! I hope to meet you some day, perhaps at an OpenSource.com event. You rock!
I agree that KDE takes a significant amount of system resources. Plasma 5 takes significant resources without even running any programs. Feature bloat has made most software from the kernel on up into resource hogs. The GNU utilities are not part of this bloat as they mostly follow the Linux Philosophy.
But I do like the extreme flexibility I have with KDE to configure the desktop to work the way I want it, even though I do not use over 90% of the bling that it offers.
And I certainly appreciate the choices we have for desktops. We all work in different ways and different desktops meet different needs and preferences.
Thanks for your comment.