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+Episode: 1223
+Title: HPR1223: How I got into linux
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1223/hpr1223.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-17 21:55:09
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+Hello NPR listeners, my name is Jezra and today I'm going to be telling you how I got into Linux.
+In the late 90s I was running Windows because well that's just kind of what I had and
+I really wanted to customize the UI of my computer. I owned the computer, it was my computer,
+I wanted it to look the way I wanted it to look and if you've run Windows you know that
+you will be running Windows the way someone else wants it to look, the way someone else wants
+it to behave and that's not quite my style. So I did a little searching on the internet
+and I saw all of these neat themes and designs and colors for this thing called Linux and at
+the time I had no idea what Linux was, I didn't know what an MP3 was, I didn't know very much
+but I learned some stuff, anyhow back to the story. So I went looking around and I found
+Corel Linux, this was about the late 1999 and I downloaded Corel Linux it took about forever,
+it was a few floppy drives worth of data and I was downloading over a dial up connection.
+If you've never downloaded a Linux distribution over a dial up connection then you're a young
+whipper snapper get off my lawn back to the story. So I installed Corel Linux and it was okay,
+it was definitely different than what I was used to and I couldn't exactly do everything I wanted
+to do granted it's been a few years so I can't exactly remember what I wanted to do but anyhow I had
+to switch. So after Corel Linux I tried installing Red Hat and by try I mean I did however Red Hat
+had no support at the time to hotplug my why the fuck is it raining in my place?
+Hold on, Niauli, hush!
+Did I ask for the time you crazy computers? Oh man let me tell you, computers they are crazy and
+they will ruin your lives. Now let's see where was I. First a disclaimer. When you were recording
+audio for any reason and you happen to have voice recognition software running on a computer
+sitting next to you turn it off because there's a good chance that for some unknown reason while
+you are talking into the microphone to record for HPR something else will be picking up your voice
+and decide to play a rainstorm on your media machine and then you'll swear at it and it will tell
+you the time. This is not the ideal situation for recording audio. Now again back to the story.
+I had installed Red Hat onto my computer at the time which was named Shy Halood. Shy Halood still
+exists because the worm falls apart and becomes the little maker which becomes another great worm
+anyhow. So Red Hat was installed. There was at the time no hot plug support for the external hard drive
+that I had. I believe it was fire wire and that was a big problem for me. I had a lot of data on
+this external hard drive then I just wanted to plug it in and go. Things didn't really work for
+me. So I went back to Windows and I used Windows for a couple of years. Then around 2004 I heard
+about this thing called Ubuntu Warty Warthog and it was a Linux distribution apparently designed
+for humans. So I installed it and I'm a human and it worked and it worked as I needed it to.
+Probably it worked as designed and it allowed me to access my external hard drive. That was a big
+win. So at the time I was dual booting between Microsoft Windows and Ubuntu and I found myself
+booting into Windows less and less to do the things that I needed to do. Basically the only
+thing I was doing while booting into Windows was playing a game. The only reason I used Windows
+at all was to play a game and eventually I finished the game and at that time I decided to make
+the switch full time to Linux and specifically I was using Ubuntu and I went on to the internet
+and learned more about this thing called Ubuntu. I found out that it was Debian based.
+Logically or at least according to my own logic, if it's based on Debian perhaps I should just be
+using Debian. So I switched from Ubuntu to Debian and for the longest time I was on just a Debian
+system. What I really liked about Debian was that I could install a minimal system and then
+blow it as I saw fit and to this day that is still how I run Linux operating systems on my computer.
+I install a big system and then I start bloating it adding whatever I want. Currently I am on
+Arch. Most if not all of my computers are running Arch with the exception of a Beaglebone which is
+running Debian ARM and a Nokia N900 that is running MAMO which is also a Debian based distribution.
+After I installed Arch, I began looking at programming languages that would allow me to do what
+I wanted to do and what I wanted to do was automation, maybe make a graphical application to do
+something I wanted to learn more about programming and I discovered the Python programming language
+which I am still very fond of. So I was running programs in Python and at the time I was working for
+proprietary software company in Petaluma, California. This was about 2006-2007.
+And the Python code that I was teaching myself at home I found to be quite useful in the office
+and my managers noticed that I was a more productive employee because I had this knowledge,
+this knowledge of Python and I was able to do things in Python very rapidly, very quickly.
+While the applications I was writing may not have been as fast as a C application or C++ application,
+the application was written and running and doing what it was supposed to do and that is the
+important part. So I was using this thing called Linux to make myself a more productive employee
+and that is always a very good thing. At the time I was using various text editors to write
+software. One of my favorites at the time was J-Edit and one of the reasons I liked J-Edit was that
+it was cross-platform, it would run on Windows, Macintosh and Linux. And to me being able to use
+the same text editor at home as I was using at work on a Windows machine or Macintosh really meant a
+lot. It was very comforting and it was nice to know that all the keyboard shortcuts were going to be
+the same and that the interface would mostly be the same and everything would be where I wanted it
+to be. I got laid off and that's fine because I found a better job, it's totally awesome.
+And I also discovered the Gini text editor and that's what really changed things for me
+in programming, I think. The Gini text editor is a GTK-based editor, very lightweight,
+but it still has a lot of features that I enjoyed, but it's still very lightweight, that is the key.
+So I changed up from being a Windows user who wanted to play games to being a Linux user who
+wanted to write code. My game of choice is the Gini text editor. When I have free time, I'm
+going to hack out some code, something fun that I can show other people and will sort of show off
+what can be done with Linux. And that is how I got into Linux and the Gini text editor and using
+Arch and keeping things minimal. And next time I will tell you the tale of how I use Linux.
+Thank you for your time. Well, that's my story and well, I'm sticking with it.
+If you'd like to get in contact with me, I can be reached through email. My name is Jezra and
+you can send an email to Jezra at Jezra.net. I'm vain enough to have my own site. What a jerk.
+I also have a federated status.net instance, which is status.jezra.net and I'm on there as Jezra.
+Fancy that. All right. You have yourself a one-ful evening day, week, month, year, millennium,
+and I'll catch you on the flip side.
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