Evolution Of A Linux User
I don’t consider myself anything more than a Linux user. As such, I am not much different from many others. I have been around personal computers since its early days, so in that sense I am a bit of warrior. This is a personal account of how I came to use Linux.
My first experience with a personal computer was an Apple II in the early 80’s. When Apple refused to support the Apple II, shortly after the Macintosh came out, I felt betrayed. As far as I was concerned, my much modified Apple II still had plenty of life still left in it. I retired my Apple computer.
I was now on my second PC by now. My 386 was taken apart and modified so much that it had served its purpose. I bought a new PC that came with XP which was just new out. I can safely say that I hated XP from the start. It was much less forgiving that Windows 95 had been and I did not particularly like Windows 95. The brunt of my hatred seemed to fall on the registry which I learned to edit and fix as it inevitably became corrupted as a result of my tinkering.
When my son started playing with Linux, I was already thinking in that direction. I was considering using Caldera’s Open Linux, in the late 90’s, but got sidetracked (easy for me to do). My son was using Gentoo, but told me a better place to start would be with Mandrake. I began using Mandrake sometime around 2000. It was version 7 point something. I used it for about two years. I switched to Fedora when it first came out, again at the instigation of my son. I used it for awhile, but it became obvious to me that I and RPMs did not get along.
I began to experiment with Debian.
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