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+Episode: 1634
+Title: HPR1634: How I got into Linux
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1634/hpr1634.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-18 06:08:10
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+It's Thursday 6th of November 2014, this is HBR episode 1634 entitled, How I Got Into
+Linux, and is part of the series, How I Found Linux.
+It is posted my first time post-bidic, and is about 18 minutes long.
+Feedback can be sent to notrefiseatemail.com, or by leaving a comment on this episode.
+The summary is, How I Discovered Linux.
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+This was recorded on a SansaClip.
+You can email me at notrefiseatemail.com, and you can't Twitter me or Google Plus because
+I don't do it, so thanks for listening.
+So this is my first HBR episode, and since I've enjoyed listening to other people tell
+how they came to Linux, I thought I would try to relate how I discovered Linux.
+I think I inherited a 286 MHz computer from one of my relatives.
+Now bare in mind, at this point in time, I had been through high school, and there was
+no computers.
+We had typewriters, and we learned to type, if that's what you wanted to do, but you
+went to typing class because if you were a male because you wanted to see any of the
+girls that were learning to type, it wasn't really on the map at that point.
+Being after graduating from high school, I was more of a mechanical gear head.
+But the surrelative who gave me this computer kind of related how she was more of a word
+type of editor, and it was just like the coolest thing to her because she could just change
+words without ever having to go back and fix the typing error or whatever, and the word
+processor was just like the most wonderful thing, and I think the first PC IBM compatible
+PC I saw was a 5.25 floppy disk with probably an 8080 or something in it, I don't know exactly.
+But that's how I came to computers, I was not some kind of college student or anything
+going and learning how to program, and this was the newest thing, it just was kind of thrown
+in my lap.
+So after discovering that, I had to figure out, well, what do you do with this?
+For me, it was taking parts out and putting parts in, and there was a video card, and there
+was all these circuit boards and things on it, and that was just really cool to me.
+So after getting over that and figuring out how all that worked on a general level, I decided
+I needed to do something in front of the computer screen, so I found a ray tracing, this was
+in the era of, I guess, 16-bit video cards, and that 286 would take all night to create
+a 3D image with the specular highlights, and it took me probably after learning how
+to type in, it was basically a programming language, how to type in 3D image to it, I would
+make changes and then start it overnight, and it would grind away, and sometimes I'd
+go to work in the next morning, it would still be grinding away on a 320 by 240-bit JPEG
+of something, but things went on, and I supported this person who went through versions of
+Windows, her DOS and then Windows, and Windows 3.0, which would crash, and they'd call me
+up and say, all the work I did, where is it?
+My computer is messed up, and I'd come over and try and figure out what was going on,
+so I kind of became the family techie, I guess, and then went through Windows 3.1, and I
+still had other interests, I was working and doing other things, but this was kind of a side
+thing, but I really became, there must be something better than this thing that keeps crashing,
+you know, this is my person that I'm supporting, keeps losing stuff, and they have to go back
+and redo it, they're paying hundreds of dollars for this, so I became more and more interested,
+and I'm thinking that there's got to be something better than Windows, so I started looking around,
+and at that point there was OS2, and I got a version of IBM OS2, and that was a very stable,
+good operating system, but it was not supported, and there was no programs, you know,
+that were cool for general users, games, and things like that, for, you know, just the general
+user, there was business apps being made, you know, you could probably make a career at that
+point of, in that, but I wasn't doing that, but I played around with that, and it was impressive,
+I was like, OS2 is, you know, this thing runs, and runs, and runs, and runs, and it was good,
+it wasn't like Windows, it didn't, you know, you didn't work in the middle of a session,
+all of a sudden boom, it died, now I wasn't a power user, so I wasn't using anything really
+sophisticated, so maybe that's naive for me to say, well, you know, I continued along,
+continued along, and then I found an OS called BOS, and I got a whole of that, I think on a
+some kind of special thing, or they gave it to me for free, while I installed that, they
+mailed it to me, I installed it, and that was cool too, but, you know, as an end user, I just didn't
+find, there was all that much to do, you know, there was, yeah, there was the basic text you could do,
+all that, you know, you could write a letter, you could do this, that, that, but, you know, the
+cool stuff was going, being developed on Windows, so, you know, I was going there, kind of,
+and I ventured through when 95, and I ventured through when 98, and I supported people who were
+having problems with it, and they were, it was crashing and dying and losing data, and
+and the whole time I was thinking, there must be, must be, must be something better, well,
+I didn't know about Unix, I didn't know about what was going on other than that,
+so, I continued on, and eventually, around, oh, I would say 96, I found, I was in a computer
+store, and there was a box-litning set, probably, I don't know, sushi or chorale or something,
+but I didn't really want to spend the 99 dollars on it, well, eventually I found that,
+through a BBS, or that was kind of pre-internet, or just at the edge of the internet, I could
+download it on a 32k bit modem, and I somehow, oh, no, if I download it, or I got it, I got it,
+but I got, you know, the whole thing, and all these floppy disks, and I,
+I think it was Red Hat, or something, I installed that, and it, but, uh, that was really, you
+like, yeah, this is going to be really cool, this is, I got to try this, but, and it installed,
+and the desktop and everything was good, but, there was, at this point in time, all the
+motherboards have software modems, this is probably, and that was secret sauce, I guess, to the
+manufacturers, and you had it, that was an open source, so Linux just didn't really support that,
+well, I continued to, uh, try to get onto the internet, or onto BBSs and things, and
+I found that, well, what I ended up doing was buying an external modem that just plugged in
+the serial port that had all the hardware, oh, that worked beautifully, and when I plugged
+that in, Linux worked fine, but still, at this point, Windows 2000, and things were coming out,
+that seemed to be pretty good, and, you know, I could find games and do other stuff, so I still
+wasn't, you know, completely sold on Linux, it came to the point, probably in, about 1998, or,
+so I want to say, 99, that I finally did install, on an older, you know, computer at a second
+desktop, I kind of set it up as a Samba server, and, you know, that was fun, against my Windows XP
+box, and, you know, I could access files and do things, and, but still, you know, I just didn't,
+I don't know, it was there, and I was pretty happy with Windows at that point, so,
+I wasn't having problems with Windows, because I guess I was just proficient enough not to have it
+be crashy all the time, you know, just, you know, and if it did, I could fix it, so,
+yeah, life went on, time was the one on, but, in about 2006, I guess, I finally was like,
+finally was surfing the internet, and I saw a bunch of, and they were like, we'll send you a,
+we'll send you a CD, so I was like, okay, send me a CD, and it was, you know, basic a bunch of,
+with, uh, Nome 2, and that just worked beautifully, I just, I loved that, you know, that was fine,
+and I can't remember if I was dual booting it through, uh,
+Lilo, or whatever came, uh, but, but, I believe I did do that, so I was able to, at that point,
+I was proficient enough to partition the disc on my laptop, and it worked really well,
+and that's basically when I got hooked, and I was just like, well, at that point, I wasn't playing
+any kind of games, I wasn't really interested, I was surfing the net, and, you know, I just, you know,
+was kind of like, well, this would be the, you know, I don't want to, why do I have to pay Windows,
+and, you know, I wasn't, I still wasn't completely convinced that, you know, I was worried about
+viruses and things, even though I never, never, ever had one, that, you know, by downloading
+software and executable and installed it, you know, and I had already discovered open-source through
+Windows, there is open-source on Windows, and so, you know, it was just like, okay, but I didn't
+really know the ethicalness of it at that point, but, uh, once I kind of hit on a bunch to,
+I took off, and I used it, and for what I was doing, it was fine, it was great, in fact, you know,
+it was different, and the, uh, you know, getting software with apt-get, or, you know, there's
+everything there, I didn't have to go serve to a website and download an executable, and I was just
+like, this is awesome, so I just kept going, and, uh, so about 2007, I completely went to Linux,
+and, uh, you know, I tried different distributions, I tried a bunch to, and, uh, maybe Red Hat,
+Fedora, um, uh, around a bunch of, for at least a couple of years, and it, it was fine with me,
+and I changed the Debian, and I tried testing and different things, and I really liked Debian,
+and so, kind of fast forward now, uh, I just didn't like the, uh,
+uh, having the updates just went, you know, always there, and, uh, I think I just decided that,
+you know, after searching around, I eventually tried Arch, um, I did, and successfully installed it,
+he went through the beginners' guide, and, and I just fell in love with the, uh,
+rolling release model, so, uh, that's where I'm at now, I, I don't,
+you know, I, I feel like my, uh, computer skills, as far as being a techie and fixing things,
+have fallen off, because it just never gives me any problems, it just runs, and I do updates, and,
+it's been years since I've had an update, give me a problem, and, uh, I'm a happy, happy camper,
+so that's my story, and, uh, I hope you enjoyed this, thanks to the HBR community.
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