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?

  • theafterman
    9·
    4 years ago

    I’m from the CS field, but my obsession is related to a general dissatisfaction with Windows.

    I distro-hopped for a couple of years until I settled with Arch, which led me to discover how the community can provide a top quality product with 0 cost for the user. But my obsession didn’t really manifested until I discovered how easy it was to deploy practically ANYTHING with Docker and BOOM! I had access to my own services which worked as good, and sometimes even better, than propietary ones. And the support, oh my god the support was excellent in every sense of the word.

    I mean, just look Arch, Void or Jellyfin: their community, their documentation, their effort for providing a quality product, is ten times better than their propietary counterparts.

    My obsession comes not from the technical knowledge or the geeky side of it, but the fact that I have access to a plethora of quality services and products with minimum effort.

    Edit: syntax

    • sparky8251
      3·
      4 years ago

      Know this is rather out of the blue, but I do appreciate the praise you lay on Jellyfin.

      It’s not easy to build a community like we have and we almost failed a few times. Stuff like this makes me realize we were right to stick with it.

      • theafterman
        2·
        4 years ago

        Glad to meet a Jellyfin collaborator here. Your work deserves the praise it gets, for real.

        All my support for you guys!