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Episode: 2953
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Title: HPR2953: How I got started in Linux
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2953/hpr2953.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-24 13:47:52
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This is HPR episode 2953 for Wednesday the 27th of November 2019.
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Today's show is entitled How I Got Started in Linux
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and it's part of the series How I Found Linux.
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It's hosted by Archer72, it's 5 minutes long and carries a clean flag.
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The summary is How I Started in Linux, Computing and Free Software.
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This episode of HPR is brought to you by archive.org.
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Support universal access to all knowledge by heading over to archive.org forward slash donate.
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All right, this is Archer72 and this podcast is brought to you by the fine people at Hacker Public Radio.
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I wanted to talk a little bit about my journey in computers in Linux.
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I began about mid-80s with an Apple II and I remember briefly programming on that.
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It was in junior high and it didn't have another experience with computers until around 92.
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Somebody introduced me to Netscape which was how I got to see what the internet was like.
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I passed forward to around 2000.
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I was in school for a couple of years and after that I got my first computer and it was running Windows Millennium.
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It was kind of slow and it didn't quite suit my needs.
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So I built a computer with an ether on probably 2G or its processor and ran XP on it.
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A couple of years later somebody introduced me around 2002 to Mandric.
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I was kind of curious so I put it on my computer and he also gave me quite a bit of paperwork to read as far as the manual.
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I worked my way through learning KDE and Mandric for a few years and came across Ubuntu.
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Probably 702 was the first version.
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I ran that for a couple of years and the point when I really think I liked it a lot as far as not a Ubuntu but Linux in general was when I got it to import video which I couldn't even do on my Windows machine which I was doing at the time.
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So that kind of got me hooked.
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After that I tried Fedora when I was originally Fedora Corb 3 or 4.
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It's hard to remember that far back but I delved in that a little bit and then distra hopped a little bit and as a place called I used to get disks at a place called OS disk because it took so long to download things that it was easier just to buy it online.
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Years so after that I discovered Arch Linux and I was using that for about maybe 6 years.
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And then a couple of years ago I noticed that KDE2 talked a lot about Slackware and I had a little time on my hands because unfortunately I was out of work at the time and I ended up putting Slackware on my laptop.
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It was a little older laptop but it still worked really well and the install process was surprisingly easy after I had had enough experience over the years.
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And at some time this year Claudia of M introduced me to free at VSD and I had seen him talking unmansited on about it and they kind of conversed back and forth with him.
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And it sounded like something interesting so I put it on a flash drive and put it on an old tower ahead that I acquired from a friend.
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In between all that I had been an experimenter with different distros on Raspberry Pi's.
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I've tried the dubbians and I was running Arch on a server on a Pi server for a little bit and then I was trying VSD and that seemed pretty nice so I kept keeping that on for the time being.
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That's all for now. Thank you for listening. This has been Archers 72. I've enjoyed using free software and I don't think I could ever go back to Windows again.
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Again, remember to use free software it just makes things a whole lot easier. Thank you for your time.
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