I have always been interested in computers, and would find myself hanging out with the Computer Science students instead of the Aviation Management or Business Management students I was a part of. At home and at work I have been largely self-teaching myself using computers starting with Excel and Access with VBA through ASP and SQL at work. Thankfully my current employer values education, and so I have been taking classes and not only learning the technology, but un-learning what I have been doing wrong over the years. At home, though, I have been teaching myself Linux, system administration, networking and the overall method of migrating our system from Windows to Linux. I am involved in the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS.org) I have the opportunity to take what I've learned the hard way and hopefully help others.. I have been enjoying Open Source for a while now, and I am hoping to get a better understanding of the entire model and application.
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It seems like Linux hardware vendors are coming out of the woodworks, which is great to see and makes sense.
I use Windows 10 and Linux at home, on numerous occasions Windows is missing a feature it may have once had and now costs money, or requires some other application. Burning CDs and playing DVDs, for example. I still can't burn, and downloaded VLC for playing DVDs.
Then I switch to Linux and use Brasero for burning CDs, and install the codecs to play DVDs in Totem (but could install VLC just like in Windows too)
At a convention I attended earlier this year, the large majority of attendees were running Apple laptops. I didn't run across anybody else running Linux, though I am sure there was at least some. I'd love to have a modern, more powerful (than what I have) laptop to represent the Linux option!
Glad to see ZaReason getting some visibility.