[lug] Happy 30th, Linux

[Steve Litt]

Daniel Weflen said on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 14:40:23 -0600

>I started with Ubuntu Karmic Koala in 2009, after I'd saved up enough
>of my grad school stipend to buy a Thinkpad. I've stuck with Ubuntu
>for my personal computers since then.

Nice!!!

>My previous computer was a low-end PowerPC macbook I got for college in
>2005. It was unreliable, and every update would fix two things and
>break another. I've stuck with linux mainly because I've had better
>reliability than with any other OS, or at least that the problems I do
>have seem to be ones I can fix.

Ex-actly!

I came from a Windows background, where I had to do two prophylactic
reboots per day. On moving to Linux, I often went days or weeks between
reboots or hangs. Linux (and OpenBSD by the way) is rock solid.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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