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Episode: 742
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Title: HPR0742: How I Got Into Linux
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0742/hpr0742.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 01:47:58
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Hello everybody my name is Ken Fallon and today's show we're going to introduce you to.
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Hi my name is Dave and I am a new Linux user and I live in Phoenix Arizona.
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Okay Dave what brought you over to Linux?
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I have a do PC repair on the side and I just started playing around with Linux here probably.
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Two or three years ago and did it for mostly getting into broken window systems.
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All right and what was it the.
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A topic CD or.
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What sort of tools do you use to repair when the windows PCs?
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Most often I'm just going in and mounting the hard drive and getting the.
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The data off the hard drives.
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I've gotten used a few tools there for recovering photos and things off the hard drives.
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Okay and how did you first hear about Linux?
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You know I'm probably listening to either pod nuts or cut something with a door to door geek here.
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They are do you subscribe to the Linux basics podcast?
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Yeah I do the Linux basics and I've got the pod nuts and the pod nuts pro and.
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Got a few other ones here.
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Okay fantastic and what's your distro of choice?
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Right now booted up with Linux mint.
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Okay how are you finding that for you?
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I'm enjoying it.
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Been downloading a lot of ISOs though.
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I'm starting to fill up the hard drive or whatever here.
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I'm trying to burn a bunch of stuff off to a dist to free up some space.
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Excellent.
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So are you do you like KDE or no?
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Or do you have preference?
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Actually I'm in no.
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I've got KDE.
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I use it occasionally but I've got a Dell Studio 1535 notebook and I can't seem to get my wireless
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to work in the KDE.
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I guess with the wicked.
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Although with the no maplet or whatever it just you know I don't have any problems at all with that.
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So I boot up into KDE occasionally but when I do I don't have internet.
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Okay that's a never a good thing.
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So what do you miss most about I guess Windows?
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Sorry what was that about Windows?
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What do you miss most about your Windows computer?
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Not a whole lot.
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I'm able that my primary is mint and although I'm learning on it there's a lot of resources out there.
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You know to go to a lot of the forums and all that.
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So I just boot up into Windows mostly when I'm trying to got a customer and I'm trying to show them how to do something or working on a Windows computer.
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But I mostly stick around and mint.
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Okay very good. I just started checking out CrunchBand Linux on some old PCs.
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It's kind of working very nice.
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I'll have to try that CrunchBang.
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You know being in the PC repair business here I've got a lot of older machines where I've gone in and people have just upgraded and given me the machines.
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Get a few of those going in and go to the free Linux box and put them on.
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Yep that is a free Linux box.org by link of the Linux link text show.
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So Dave this is your first and my first venture into using mumble. How do you find it so far?
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I'm not sure how I'm sounding to you but you're sounding really clear here and I'm just using the unboard audio on my studio 1535 Dell.
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And it was fairly easy once I just ran the audio configuration wizard at the top of the screen there and just followed the prompts.
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It was pretty straightforward.
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Yeah I must say it's a scaringly easy to record a show there's a record button right there and you tell us where it's going to record.
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And then I thought on your side you saw some message saying that I was reading the show is that correct?
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Yeah and the left hand message or whatever it just said that you were starting to record there and it showed the server.
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Cool so Dave I think we'll unless you have anything else to say we'll wrap this up and we'll choke this up as your first podcast on the hacker public radio network.
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All right well I definitely appreciate the hacker hacker public radio I'm a subscriber to the podcast there and you know I appreciate everything everybody in the community is doing out there to help Linux become better and more popular you all have a good day.
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Thanks YouTube be sure and join the mail list on hacker public radio.org form slash mail list and with that we'll sign off.
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Thank you for listening to hacker public radio.
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HPR is sponsored by caro.net so head on over to C-A-R-O dot anything for all of us.
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Thank you very much.
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