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Did you choose for Linux for freedom or ...
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I like to tinker and learn how things work, and windows ME blue screened on my one time too many, so I picked up Linux in 1998. Redhat box from compusa, if anyone remembers that place.
And that’s when my life changed; using the skills I taught myself i got well paying jobs as a sysadmin and then as software developer and now I’m an “infrastructure engineer” (I write terraform to manage cloud infrastructure and i do other sysadmin stuff ).
It’s paid off!
Nice. So you're an old timer :)
compusa does ring a bell. Suddenly reminds me of InfoMagic though. Here's a photo found with a search engine.![](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e5e35c9d-ee5f-42a3-8a48-7109858e0ca6.jpeg)
Awesome.
Mostly daily drive macOS for work / personal stuff (the ease of windows guis with the underpinnings of “Linux” [bsd]), but I have a home lab running a bunch of Linux stuff, my own infra in digital ocean (Debian), and windows for games. I’m not an os absolutist, they each have their place.
Must be weird realizing that you owe your livelihood to Windows ME.
lol seriously