Don Watkins (He/Him/His)

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Franklinville, New York

Educator, entrepreneur, open source advocate, life long learner, Python teacher. M.A. in Educational Psychology, M.S. Ed. in Educational Leadership, Linux system administrator.

Open Source Star People's Choice Award Social Sharer Award 2014 Conversation Starter Award 2015 Best Interview Award 2016 Best Interview Award 2017 Moderator's Choice Award 2018 Moderator's Choice Award 2019 Author Comment Gardener Open education 100+ Contributions Club Contributor Club

Authored Content

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Run Linux apps on your Chromebook

Run all the Linux apps you want using Crostini on your Chromebook.

Teach Python with the Mu editor

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How to choose an affordable Linux laptop for video conferencing

Open source can give pre-owned computers the necessary boost to make them useful with today's popular video conferencing tools.

How to find Android apps that respect user privacy

An Android operating system that prioritizes mobile data privacy

Meet /e/, a privacy-focused, Android operating system independent of Google.

Build your own open source alternative to Google Suite with Nextcloud

The open source cloud collaboration suite has made major gains in recent years. Take a look at what you've missed.

Introduction to the Domain Name System (DNS)

Changing the world with open source: GNOME president shares her story

GitLab's new senior open source program manager and founding team member of Endless OS shares her vision for using open source to improve society.

Authored Comments

Don Watkins

15 Feb 2022

6 Linux metacharacters I love to use on the command line

Cool! Thanks for sharing that. :)

Don Watkins

15 Feb 2022

6 Linux metacharacters I love to use on the command line

Thank you for sharing that!