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+Episode: 1302
+Title: HPR1302: How I Got to Linux
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1302/hpr1302.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-17 23:11:53
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+I've heard the calls for episodes from HPR, so I'm going to give this a try.
+This is my first attempt and I'm going to talk about how I got into Linux.
+I'm using the handle executor and first I'll tell you a little bit about my computer background.
+I started in computers on an IBM mainframe back in 1968.
+I had the chance to use a 36075 which in the day was a really remarkable machine.
+I was very lucky because in our high school we had a teacher who had an in with a professor
+at the local university where the computer was.
+We got to go to the computer center, make up our own decks, punching in those cards,
+then we would haul them into the reader room, the reader had a room and the cards would
+be read, output we would then receive.
+It was on fan paper.
+That's where I learned code.
+Now I then went out of high school into university at that university and studied there for
+about a year in that program.
+However, the wise people of that university told us all that there would be no jobs.
+The market they said was completely saturated to nobody would buy any more mainframes.
+There would be no jobs.
+I thought well they're the experts so I changed my major and ended up working in a totally
+different field for many years.
+I still liked computer stuff so as much as I could I would read about them and follow
+their development.
+It was many years later around 1989 when I bought my first PC which was an IBM clone.
+It struck me as almost the machine that we were trying to design back in the day in 1968.
+We would talk about what we'd like but could we have it home.
+Although our real aim was the laptop.
+The laptop was some years in the future at that point though.
+I started using DOS and I stuck with it quite some time until computers started to come
+in at the office.
+This was by the mid-90s.
+I was then using a laptop to Shiba.
+It was running on Windows.
+I never got into Macs.
+I just didn't at first.
+The PC's everyone was using it.
+Work were all Windows and I transitioned from DOS into Windows.
+I was not happy.
+For many years though I continued struggling with Windows and using it at work and at home.
+In 2007 I finally met someone who was a red hat certified instructor I think.
+He kept trying to get me to use Linux.
+At first I wasn't interested but when he explained about all the language options in it was
+free and he gave me a CD to try it out.
+Welcome on.
+It was free.
+I tried it.
+The version that I got from him was Ubuntu and I think it was feisty fun.
+In any event I started using that and discovered very quickly that it would be helpful to understand
+the coding for the command line.
+I went into Unix and Linux sites and taught myself a certain amount.
+I then bought my own computers, the laptops I had been using some work about my own.
+It had a legal windows system on it and I you booted it into Ubuntu.
+By this time we're up to G and H. I don't remember what those were but they got a lot
+better and a lot easier to use.
+One morning I came out and saw that my system was open and running.
+I was quite surprised because I shut everything down.
+Coming from the days when RAM was something like 5 or 6 megabytes I religiously shut windows
+and closed things down to maximize the use of the computer.
+It took me a little while but I figured out that what had happened is that although I
+had my windows system locked down every way I could think of and every way my friends
+could think of, he had still opened up.
+So what had happened was there was some attempt to boot into my windows system and I'm
+assuming make alterations.
+Now I'm thinking this was windows itself that was trying to do it and that I had effectively
+been monitored in some fashion and now there was some effort made to get at my system.
+I was extremely upset and in a rage I wiped the entire machine clean because the suspected
+maybe something was planted and I booted up with Ubuntu only.
+I stayed with Ubuntu only then for some years the various versions came and went.
+I would install and use them and I actually have liked the Ubuntu system.
+Not until Unity.
+When Unity came in and I was forced to upgrade my system I was very upset.
+Instead of being able to use the system that I was familiar with and which I had customized
+to suit myself I was being forced to use this new layer.
+I tend to help out friends who think I know a lot about computers which gives you an
+idea of how little they know and I would have to work with Unity or such on their systems.
+So gradually I was forced into that, didn't care for it, then Ubuntu went into partnership
+with Amazon and before that system came out I decided I'd had enough.
+What I do now is work in Linux Mint.
+I know huge change right, I mean it's practically identical but it doesn't have the annoying
+features.
+I have customized Mint, I'm very pleased with the way it's running and I am using Audacity
+now on Mint.
+It seems to be working really well.
+We'll see.
+I did stay with pure Ubuntu machines for a very long time even though I got back into
+gaming.
+The problem back in the day was that Steam wouldn't run on the Ubuntu system unless you
+really tweak the daylight set of one.
+I got pretty good at it and I could get most of my Steam games to run even the full screen
+large demanding ones.
+I had another Toshiba with a heavy duty processor, RAM and so forth and it seemed to be able
+to handle the processor.
+I liked it well enough, except I have to admit it was pretty buggy.
+It would not always run properly, sometimes games were messed up and so on.
+So when I bought my current laptop I decided I would get a legal window system again and
+then switch to do a boot.
+When I first did that I was still in Ubuntu.
+I discovered Mint and decided I would triple boot, I know, on suicidal.
+I ran a triple boot machine for quite a while, six months, something like that.
+It worked pretty well actually, but as the months passed I realized there was almost never
+opening Ubuntu and I was basically offering out Mint.
+Because I had the Windows system on the machine I could play Steam out of Windows.
+This I found very satisfactory and I continued to use the system with the dual boot, I dropped
+the triple and Windows regains Mint for everything else.
+Another thing I did was swap out one of the 500 GB drives, took the spin disk out and
+put in an SSD.
+I run Windows on that side and I must say the gaming is wonderful.
+However, for everything else that I do I run out of Linux Mint and I am happy with
+that system.
+I use it for preparing all my documents, PowerPoints, audio, everything for work.
+I take it into work, everything runs well.
+The bottom line is that for reality and day-to-day functioning I felt now function completely
+in Linux.
+For gaming I have to admit it's awfully nice to run the games on an SSD drive.
+So that's about it for me and working with Linux.
+I hope that this show isn't too bad and that others will be encouraged to go ahead and
+give it a try.
+This really isn't a tough system to use and I just saw the HPR program about recording
+using a Dacity.
+I found it very helpful and as you can hear I actually managed to record something.
+If more people don't record additional programs for HPR then I may try a second program and
+I think once in my bag would be a fun one.
+Encourage people to try this, it's really not that hard, thanks for listening.
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