New member introduction

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Hi. My name is Mike and i am retired myself! I have not worked in the IT industry, yet i have had a long history with computers starting with a Mk1A firecontrol computer (syncros and servos) aboard a converted WW2 ship, then TRS80 Model 3, then DOS 3.0 and forward! I was then introduced to Red Hat 3.0 by buying myself a book and self-installing at home. Started myself a home library of Linux books and started learning to to diagnose and correct hardware/software problems on my own. Didn’t know anybody that ran linux/unix personally! My iinterests are CLI, learning network operations, the linux/unix way, troubleshooting tips and tricks and scripting for linux system operarions for a near future home lab.

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Welcome Mike! sounds like you are a linux veteran

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Mike, very interesting history and experience.

These days, do you have a particular favorite Linux distribution?

My personal favorite is a small, efficient Debian based distribution called antiX. I’m generally partial to Debian based distributions but I have also been interested in Slackware, Cachy OS and Endeavour OS recently.

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Welcome to the community! Speaking of CLI, what do you think of terminals like Warp and Wave?