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?

  • @lorabe
    5•4 years ago

    Very interesting topic, I’m not from CSc but what you say makes sense, actually I have a cousin who knows about GNU/Linux thanks to his programming teacher. Before telling my story I want to say that I’m Mexican so my English is not perfect.

    I discovered GNU/Linux when I was 14 years old (7 years ago); a Spanish YouTube channel made a video about Linux Mint, I was already so pissed at how Windows was mediocre in everything, windows 8 was such an unstable an eventually slow piece of software and it wasn’t even secure.

    So I decided to switch to GNU/Linux but I was a stupid and reckless kid, I didn’t have an USB and I thought "if i upgraded my windows by installing the OS as an upgrade, I don’t need to have and USB, I just need to have the ISO file and my computer will handle everything right?.

    There’s none of that lol…

    Several months later our “OS teacher” presented us Ubuntu 09… in 2014 lol, with the purpose of installing it in our computers, I already knew some parts of GNU/Linux so I asked her if I could install Ubuntu 14.10 and she was like what? … oh yeah no problem.

    I never looked back, my friends liked to play games on my computer using windows 8 but I personally never used it again, eventually i just reinstalled Ubuntu and it was a permanent bye to Windows.

    Now I’m a fedora user with aims of using GuixSD in a future, and more in the “libre software” side of things rather than “open source”.

    • @theafterman
      3•4 years ago

      First time hearing about GuixSD here, and after reading a bit more about it, I need to give it a try.