An interview with bodhi.zazen
More and more it becomes clear hat not all Ubuntu users or forum members fit the stereotype of a Linux geek. Another non-techie with a personal history in computers, bodhi.zazen might represent the face of Linux enthusiasts to come: someone who has interests and responsibilities (like four children!) beyond the computer screen, but has one foot planted firmly in the Ubuntu community.
My father was a systems analyst and I recall the days when computers were programed with punch cards. I built my first “computer” as a home electronics project and programmed it (in machine language) to flash lights and neon red numbers. Neon green Unix mainframe -> DOS -> mouse -> Google. Viruses, worms, adware, spyware.
After many years of “brain death” it occurred there must be a better way. At the advice of a guru I started with Red Hat. The command line stopped me dead in my tracks. Same with Debian. Slackware did not even have a gui (that was before I knew how to spell “startx”). Moreover, many Linux communities seemed to take great pride in elitism and RFTM.
Ubuntu changed all that.
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