My Linux Journey
I'm the youngest in my family. There's a pretty big age gap between myself and my eldest sister. So she got married when I was still in elementary school.
My brother in law was (still is) a techie. He told me about this cool new operating system where I had the power to change whatever I wanted 1. I thought that was pretty cool.
So he showed me how to make a bootable Ubuntu USB. My memory is foggy on the desktop environment it used back then. I think they either just switched to their Unity DE or it was still using old Gnome.
It Was A Struggle.
Now me being young, and Linux illiterate, back then, I have some funny stories:
- Like having no concept of how open source drivers worked and trying to install the laptops proprietary drivers via wine 2.
- Trying (and mostly failing) to get games to run.
- Endless googling to figure out how to get my WiFi driver to stop turning itself off.
- Being absolutely terrified of the terminal. I was hesitant of any guide that needed me to open the terminal and do things in it.
Linux Now
Daily driving Linux now is such a breeze man. It's come a long way since my early days. Everything, for the most part, works out of the box. Games run via steam's proton layer mostly without fuss 3 and there's Linux ports for a lot of programs out there now. Also laptop battery life isn't abysmal like it used to be.
Honestly no regrets, the journey has been good. Immensely thankful my brother in law introduced it to me all those years ago.
If you have some fun Linux stories, hit me up I'd love to hear them.
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In theory at least. I had very little coding experience back then. I was a wee young lad.↩
Don't judge me. I was young and dumb.↩
Except maybe on the fly shader rendering. If you notice audio blips and stutters when running a game for the first time, this is likely the culprit. Also games running kernel level anticheat, but I don't want to play games that have that anyway.↩