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?
I wouldn’t say I am obsessed with Linux, but I enjoy that Linux/FOSS is community driven and that shows in both the product itself as well as the development process.
Something about using Linux just feels more fun and engaging than trudging through installs/configs on Windows machine.
I think it’s the tendency for problems to get a response like “wait… what? That should work!” instead of “I get off work at 5, have you tried reinstalling Windows?”