No kids here, but running Linux since '95 (Debian since '96). My wife runs Linux as well, since the previous laptop was bought in '11. (As long as it runs LibreOffice and firefox, she is ok with anything) That laptop got replaced in '22 as the hardware became unstable. (Again running Debian)
On a side note, my small laptop still has the windows 10 that came with it in a quiet corner… from time to time, it’s still needed to rescue Samsung phones from the junk Samsungs dumps on it. (Although, there seems to be an Odin for Linux…) Oh, and to de-drm my ebooks. (I don’t care what the sellers of those books think, I bought the ebook, I read it on the reader I prefer)
But that’s only a theoretical construct and rarely working well. Indeed my Windows WM was booted exactly once in years… to get an old broken S7E running again.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Dad, is in fact, GNU/Dad, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Dad. Dad is not a human unto himself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU body made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full human as defined by POSIX.
Many bodies run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Dad”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the evolution of nature. There really is a Dad, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Dad is the soul: the program in the system that allocates the bodies’s resources to the other thoughts that you run. The kernel is an essential part of a human, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Dad is normally used in combination with the GNU body: the whole system is basically GNU with Dad added, or GNU/Dad. All the so-called “Dads” are really humans of GNU/Dad.
This was my dad. He’s used Linux since 1998. Needless to say I have always run Fedora.
Don’t you call him M’dad?
No kids here, but running Linux since '95 (Debian since '96). My wife runs Linux as well, since the previous laptop was bought in '11. (As long as it runs LibreOffice and firefox, she is ok with anything) That laptop got replaced in '22 as the hardware became unstable. (Again running Debian)
On a side note, my small laptop still has the windows 10 that came with it in a quiet corner… from time to time, it’s still needed to rescue Samsung phones from the junk Samsungs dumps on it. (Although, there seems to be an Odin for Linux…) Oh, and to de-drm my ebooks. (I don’t care what the sellers of those books think, I bought the ebook, I read it on the reader I prefer)
But that’s only a theoretical construct and rarely working well. Indeed my Windows WM was booted exactly once in years… to get an old broken S7E running again.
Does he have an decade old ThinkPad with barebone arch by any chance?
No, he’s gone back on himself and runs Linux in a VM on a Windows work laptop now. I don’t understand it
The role is reversed now but i am guessing they didn’t allow linux so that’s the only way for him to use it?
Yeah that’s probably it
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Dad, is in fact, GNU/Dad, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Dad. Dad is not a human unto himself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU body made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full human as defined by POSIX. Many bodies run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Dad”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the evolution of nature. There really is a Dad, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Dad is the soul: the program in the system that allocates the bodies’s resources to the other thoughts that you run. The kernel is an essential part of a human, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Dad is normally used in combination with the GNU body: the whole system is basically GNU with Dad added, or GNU/Dad. All the so-called “Dads” are really humans of GNU/Dad.
It is comforting to know that GNU was an inevitable product of evolution.