Glen T, heated, not stirred on Nostr: In a weird 'everything old is new again moment we're back to the opening era with ...
In a weird 'everything old is new again moment we're back to the opening era with helping people with Linux adoption.
For a long time Linux has been for use by computing professionals, whilst being of interest to hobbyists.
But the wheel has now returned to a point where there is a tide of new people, who have never used a Unix-like system, who want to migrate their data, so are doing the trickiest type of installation, and need a hand over the initial hurdle.
I am all for it. Operating systems die if they don't have Real Life Users. Just in the past two years it has become very apparent why a free software operating system is a good choice for personal use.
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