How many of u here are from a non CSc field, but got obsessed with GNU/Linux and FOSS,if so why?
I came into this bcoz of Kali Linux, jus was curious about the hacking stuff going on back in school and started looking into it and discovered this whole new world. But it was really after when i felt like shit ,knowing how big brothers where treating us, i was into all this privacy based and ethical things. What i mostly like about gnu/Linux or FOSS is that u can be part of the community and help each other. And you can pay each developer or community of developers and support them, so no single entity is bagging everything . If this was the way everything was, all the central power who have no moral or ethical vision for humanity would have never existed. So thats y i got so obsessed with all this even tho its generally considered irrelevant to a person from my field. Whats ur story?
When I was younger and windows 8.1 came out I thought it was cool how it looked so different to windows 7, and when windows 10 came out I started to realize that operating systems were cool in how they changed the way everything looked and kind of how everything worked. I wanted to try MacOS for a long time because I wanted to see how different of an experience it was, but that never happened because MacOS is expensive as hell.
A couple years ago I learned about linux and got super hyped because it was another operating system that worked completely differently than windows. I wanted to switch for a long time but I was still super into video games, but last year I lost a lot of interest in them and that really helped me be able to move along with proton for games I do still like to play. Also I was starting to realize I wanted to stop being so dependant on big corporations for my day-to-day stuff.
I finally switched in january and never looked back. I hopped a little but once I landed on manjaro that was it for me. I can do everything I did on windows but better now. I actually am not looking forward to the beginning of school next year because they require windows on your laptop and windows is just a bit ugly now compared to linux lol.
A side effect of switching mainly for my love of operating systems is that while I thinks it’s clunky and a bit ugly I do not specifically hate windows or even microsoft, though they do a lot of shitty things. I equate windows personally with something like that juicer that only used proprietary packets or the new john deer tractors, I’m sure it has a place but it is not for me.