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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This past year I've used Pop! OS, which is an Ubuntu derivative.
I found it to be responsive, pretty complete and whimsical along the lines of what Ubuntu used to be when it first came out (before it got all grown-up, and corporate).
Recently, though, I tried updating and that borked my system. This time around I installed Ubuntu 18.10, which is my fallback (at any point in time I can go to Ubuntu and have an up-to-date working system, often with my files and setting intact).
I've also been using CloudReady, a Chromium OS distro, on my laptop I use infrequently. I didn't want to have to do any maintenance work on it, just grab-and-go. That includes Virtualbox installed and can run Flatpak apps is pretty cool.
Or course my servers have been running and LTS Ubuntu Server. Probably could use some love and look at upgrading but I am also moving my Nextcloud to a Raspberry Pi (3B+) right now (just got the powered USB hub and USB drive).
Great walk-through on setting it up yourself.