This was my dad. He’s used Linux since 1998. Needless to say I have always run Fedora.
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 must have been traumatic for that Arch user to discover such rebellion in their child. /s
On a more serious note, if my kids find this post: I hope you know we can talk about closed source software if you’re curious about it - and about maintaining a proper virtual infrastructure to protect the rest of the network from it.
Isn’t this that one comic artist who ended being super racist? Goes by GPrime85 on Twitter / Reddit.
Fun times, lmao
Know you meme page (for those that want to see the original without giving Twitter or his account the views):
Can I share an episode?
We’re a Window$ free house; Linux is the daily driver on every single computer we have.
I have school age children. They have IT classes. I set up a machine with Mint, clean install, to serve has the school workhorse. Not one task assigned at school can not be done in the Linux box. My child came home a few worried a few times because the teacher disliked having a linux box in the room.
What happens is the teacher is terrified has they cannot load a single piece of software on that machine, as they do with all the other students, at will. The notion of explaining to all the other students they need to go to some site to download some program while my child just needs to fetch it (or already has it pre installed) from a secure repository is baffling. The knowledge that that humble and rather older machine can not be trivialy tampered with is mind disturbing.
At some point the teacher explained how to maintain the system (clean temp files and random junk Windows collects over time by just having programs installed and removed) and looked at my child and chidded that was something she could not do.
I taught my kid how to do basic system maintenance. Through the console. Like a boss. They upgraded the system while they colleagues were “busy” hunting down temp files.
I feel for the teacher, Windows is still the predominant OS that is used by businesses worldwide and it’s unlikely to change any time soon. Ensuring the kids have some familiarity with it is important as when a lot of them go into the workplace their employer isn’t going to give them a choice of OS to use. A number of schools in my country now provide kids with Windows laptops that can be managed through group policies. I can imagine the teacher feeling frustrated at times as their teaching material will be geared to Windows and may face challenges in being able to grade your kid.
It’s great you have given your kid experience in using Linux and that should set them up really well to working in a Linux based environment. Hopefully one day other OS will be added to teacher’s curriculum so that all kids have the opportunity to get hands on experience.
