Hi,
I am a 68-year-old (retired after 30 years in IT), happily married Brit with two daughters living in the south of England. I’m a geek primarily for science, science fiction, computing and, more recently, writing as I have published my first book (SF of course) although I’m struggling with its sequel (hopefully the only one).
Both my desktop and laptop are Windows but I have four Raspberry Pi machines (three 5s and one 4) and an N97 mini-PC (upgraded to 2Tb) on which I’m building a Ubuntu server to replace my Pi one. The server will host Nextcloud, Samba (NAS) and DLNA as I have an awful lot of ripped videos and MP3s (all legal). I’m not sure if I’ll use JellyFin on this one as I’m not a huge fan of its interface.
So yeah, despite a period back in the early 2000s where I used Linux solely for a period of six months before retreating to Windows, I’ve mucked about with Linux now and then so I have a fair bit of Linux experience especially since I got my first Pi a couple of years back. That said, my Linux knowledge is piecemeal, I often just don’t “get it” and I sometimes jokingly refer to myself as a brain-damaged Windows ex-tech.
'spose the other thing I should mention is that, even though I’ve successfully migrated to Windows 11, I’m one of those people teetering on the edge of jumping ship because I’m finding more and more of post-Gates MS limitations (or whatever you’d call them) grating on me. I mean I’m seriously wondering how long it’ll be before you can’t even build a Windows PC without internet and access to a Microsoft account… hence some of my interest in Linux and I guess it’s only fear of the unknown that holds me on Windows.
Anyway, hello
James