MartyMonroe
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I came to the home PC world late - 2002. I had been working on Unix systems for 15 years and Linux was the obvious choice.
I use open source software on the Windows PC I am supplied with at work, to make up for limitations in the Windows o/s. It never fails to amaze me just how primitive W10 is. We still don't have multiple desktops, and you can't logon multiple sessions concurrently. I haven't fixed that but I use open source software to give me a find that works (the default Windows one is very unreliable), a text editor that knows about code formatting, a graphics package that doesn't involve taking out a mortgage (also, I find CS6 completely unintuitive) and web browsers that don't think they can do everything (I hate the way Edge thinks it is a better pdf reader than Acrobat). Daily at work I use Cygwin (for grep), Notepad++, Gimp, Firefox, Chrome and other bits and bobs. Open source makes me more efficient and as a bonus, saves the college money, which is important with government education funding cuts.
"Who doesn't enjoy emoji?"
Me for one. I would much rather receive and send a properly worded communication, without stupid smiley faces and silly abbreviations.
Back in the day when I had a mobile phone (before I got better), rather than sending a text message "Pub tonite?", I would send "Hi John, Are you going to the Royal Oak tonight? I plan to be there about 8:15pm. Hope to see you. Best wishes, Marty".