TheCatTamer
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HI there! (i,m new to Linux.org so i might've done something wrong posting this) btw this is a Linux appreciation post not a help post.
So way back in march 2024 I was bored and i was just walking around my house and then I remembered that i had an old taken apart computer in my garage somewhere, so i was like: "i'm going to put this together and then i get to have a computer!" (or something like that) so i spent 2 days putting it together(i was'nt very good at technology then) and then it would'nt boot, and then for some reason i decided to try and install windows 2000 because i had a disc ( ¯\(ツ)/¯) but after 2 days of it not working, someone in my family said i could try linux but they didnt really know what it was, so i spent a while realizing that there are multiple "versions" (distros) so i found a lighter one which was Lubuntu 20.04. so i tried installing it but it didnt work, and later i realized that the drive was dead(too old and left in garage) so i just ran everything off of a 256 gb usb 2.0 (whitch was very slow as you can imagine) and then i found i had a few more old computers in there that i put linux on, and that brings us to a month or two later, when i decided i wanted to make a hackintosh but thats not linux so we'll skip past that. and at this point i had accumulated a few more computers that were more powerful that could run a new "version" called ubuntu that was apparently "the distro" and with ubuntu i learned "how to linux" with learning what the terminal "was" and also that i could install programs with it,(side note i thought you had to download the .deb file and then sudo apt install steam and it would use that(i didnt know what a repo was) and then i l learned what a "desktop enviorment" was and how you could change it, so i installed gnome 3 on linux mint 20.04 and made it look "hacky" with janky transparency themes in gnome, and then i bricked that linux install but we're not talking about that. then i just started to get more familer with all of linux, and i also got so so much better at technology during this period, before i started linux i barely knew what a file or filesystem was, and now i can create a text file in the terminl and use it as a notepad (touch note.txt, then nano note.txt) then i want to try something harder so i try endevour os and i really liked it!
...for about 2 weeks anyway... then i ran out of space and linux died. so i couldnt use that computer until i reinstalled, and guess what computer is writing this!(its that one) so anyway now i am with several(like 10) running linux plus my main laptop(2011 macbook air with hyprland btw)
so linux + gnu... thank you for being so fun to use and for making my life more interesting
PS. i hope i didnt make this too long or it just being like a story about computers and not linux. and btw im still young so thats why it sounds like it was written by a 13 year old and i also use arch btw
Thanks for reading this far!(unless you just scrolled to the end so i unthank you) (also linux has taught me about online prvacy so i use tor and floorp with startpage)
anyway Thanks For Reading!
So way back in march 2024 I was bored and i was just walking around my house and then I remembered that i had an old taken apart computer in my garage somewhere, so i was like: "i'm going to put this together and then i get to have a computer!" (or something like that) so i spent 2 days putting it together(i was'nt very good at technology then) and then it would'nt boot, and then for some reason i decided to try and install windows 2000 because i had a disc ( ¯\(ツ)/¯) but after 2 days of it not working, someone in my family said i could try linux but they didnt really know what it was, so i spent a while realizing that there are multiple "versions" (distros) so i found a lighter one which was Lubuntu 20.04. so i tried installing it but it didnt work, and later i realized that the drive was dead(too old and left in garage) so i just ran everything off of a 256 gb usb 2.0 (whitch was very slow as you can imagine) and then i found i had a few more old computers in there that i put linux on, and that brings us to a month or two later, when i decided i wanted to make a hackintosh but thats not linux so we'll skip past that. and at this point i had accumulated a few more computers that were more powerful that could run a new "version" called ubuntu that was apparently "the distro" and with ubuntu i learned "how to linux" with learning what the terminal "was" and also that i could install programs with it,(side note i thought you had to download the .deb file and then sudo apt install steam and it would use that(i didnt know what a repo was) and then i l learned what a "desktop enviorment" was and how you could change it, so i installed gnome 3 on linux mint 20.04 and made it look "hacky" with janky transparency themes in gnome, and then i bricked that linux install but we're not talking about that. then i just started to get more familer with all of linux, and i also got so so much better at technology during this period, before i started linux i barely knew what a file or filesystem was, and now i can create a text file in the terminl and use it as a notepad (touch note.txt, then nano note.txt) then i want to try something harder so i try endevour os and i really liked it!
...for about 2 weeks anyway... then i ran out of space and linux died. so i couldnt use that computer until i reinstalled, and guess what computer is writing this!(its that one) so anyway now i am with several(like 10) running linux plus my main laptop(2011 macbook air with hyprland btw)
so linux + gnu... thank you for being so fun to use and for making my life more interesting
PS. i hope i didnt make this too long or it just being like a story about computers and not linux. and btw im still young so thats why it sounds like it was written by a 13 year old and i also use arch btw
Thanks for reading this far!(unless you just scrolled to the end so i unthank you) (also linux has taught me about online prvacy so i use tor and floorp with startpage)
anyway Thanks For Reading!
