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Episode: 905
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Title: HPR0905: Akranis: How I got into Linux
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0905/hpr0905.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 04:44:00
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Hello, my name is Mathidas, I also go in your handles hexagenic and acronis.
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There's been a request for more how I got into Linux episodes so I thought I'd share
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my story.
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I can't remember the exact point in time when I first heard about Linux.
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The earliest I can remember is when my uncle installed a Linux machine in my parents house
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running smoothwall.
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smoothwall is a Linux distribution primarily designed to be a firewall.
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We also had a Samba server running on it to provide a central storage for the house.
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Me and my brother didn't touch the server itself much because we didn't know how Linux
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worked.
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It was mostly administrative by my uncle, with me and my brother shutting it down occasionally
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during thunderstorms.
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At this point I did not know that there existed a distribution with desktops and had never
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used a Linux terminal.
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When I entered what we in Sweden called a gymnasium, sort of a college preparatory school,
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a classmate introduced me to puppy Linux, which he had installed on a thumb drive.
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At this point I still didn't know much what Linux was, but the thought of installing
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a whole operating system or something as small as a thumb drive quickly caught my interest.
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So I had him install it on one of my thumb drives.
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I played around with puppy Linux for a couple of weeks until I learned about Ubuntu.
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The friendly messages on the website, under inviting graphics, made me download and
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burn an ISO, which I quickly installed on my school issue laptop, side by side with
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Windows.
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Ubuntu worked great out of box.
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I had Wi-Fi, sound and graphics without having to do anything.
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This is also when I first came into contact with a package manager, which was a concept
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I now wish existed on Windows.
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When I first started using Ubuntu, I avoided the terminal a lot.
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It did not seem like anything I would be using very much, but a lot of the guides on
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the web used it as part of some steps.
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Eventually I started getting used to it and even started doing a lot of things in the
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terminal, that I otherwise always did graphically.
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I started moving around, renaming and deleting files in the terminal.
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I even stopped using the graphical package manager and installed packages and updated
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my system exclusively from the terminal.
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Basically my interest in programming made me explore bash scripting.
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At first I only did very small programs without any other purpose than to satisfy my curiosity
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for a language.
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But after a while I started using a podcasting client called bashpudder.
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The client worked really well except for one thing.
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If I ran it daily with cron, it would tend to fill up my podcasting directory with empty
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folders.
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Being as the entire client was written as a bash script, I set out to fix this.
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I rewrote parts of bashpudder so it would fit my needs and used it like this for many
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months.
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I tried a lot of other distributions other than Ubuntu, like Fedora, Mandriva, Debian
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and CrunchBang, many others.
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Not often really stuck with me though.
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Most of the time I just switched back to Ubuntu because it was the one I was most comfortable
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with.
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My final settlement is arch, which is somehow has that feeling of home.
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When I run programs or edit configuration files, it feels like this distribution was designed
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by someone who thinks a lot like me.
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I liked the idea of having the system set up with a text files and bash scripts because
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they are easily edible and copyable from system to system.
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And because the base system has a few packages installed, it allows me to pick and choose
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anything I want or need.
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In the end, I don't use Linux exclusively though, as I still use Windows every day for
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games and collaborating with other programmers, but I do wish more of it was open source.
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Despite the need for Windows, I tried to do as much as I can on my laptop running arch
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and my server running Debian.
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And that's the end of the story of how I got into Linux.
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And also the end of my first podcast episode.
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