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?
My background is in finance and I just got accepted in to a college for hospitality. I noticed how bad windows 10 was getting and as a 22year old guy I had just discovered about Edward Snowden and the stuff that he exposed freaked the fuck out of me so I decided to care about my privacy and decided to switch to linux. This was in mid 2018 (around this month of that year). I browsed a bit, did some research and landed with ElementaryOS as my first Distro. It is very elegant and beginner friendly. I have distro hopped since. I am trying to use as much as open source applications as possible. Unfortunately, as a student in a different field I don’t have proper knowledge to contribute to the community nor do I have money to donate to the devs.
I am trying to switch to custom roms on android phones as well but I feel like they’re just not there yet. Too many bugs in them. microg is great but it looks like microg could use a lot of helping hand.
The whole Edward Snowden situation freaked me out too…It’s a shame what happens to whistleblowers. No wonder many people are afraid to speak out. My first distro was Linux Mint. I also installed it on my mom’s computer and she really likes it.
I never tried Linux mint or even Cinnamon DE. Recently, I was watching a youtube video and the youtuber was using Cinnamon DE. It looked clean af. I will definitely give Cinnamon a try (: