[TriLUG] Waxing Nastolgic.

[Brian via TriLUG]

On 5/3/24 15:06, James T via TriLUG wrote:
> How many others have a long desktop history with Linux?  And your distro of choice?

I don't quite have the history you do, but my story goes like this:

~ 1999, 2000 - Started working for the Office of Remote Learning in the 
Soil Sciences department at NCSU.  All their servers ran Red Hat Linux. 
  Still used Windows for my daily-driver desktop, but around this time I 
also set up my own server with Red Hat.

~ 2002 - Took an IT job at a small company, and my predecessor had used 
Linux on the desktop.  Decided to roll with it.

~ 2004 - Took a job at another small company to do IT and development. 
The particular set of tasks meant a Linux desktop environment made sense 
(lots of Java and LAMP work).  Around this same time, I was routinely 
setting up my home workstation to dual-boot, but spending the lion's 
share of time in Windows.  Still had a Linux-based server going, though.

~ 2012 - Bought my house, bought a 3D printer, got much more heavily 
into embedded development.  Found Windows-based toolchains clunky and 
unreliable in many cases.  Started spending much more time in the Linux 
environment.  Found I liked Debian's package management over Red Hat's. 
  At some point, switched my server from Fedora to Debian.  My desktop 
environment had already been Debian for some time.

~ 2024 - Almost never boot Windows anymore.  I have only two active 
reasons lately: Some games, and Fusion 360.  Now that (according to 
rumor), Fusion 360 is eliminating their free hobbyist tier, that's one 
less reason for Windows.

Debian remains my distro of choice.

-B