Welcome. I’m relatively new here as well; maybe a couple weeks or so back. I think what I find valuable is it seems like a responsive community.
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Yeah been checking the site and everyone seems great!
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Welcome to the forums. Also, was going down the path of routing and switching but then switched jobs from Cingular Wireless to Cable & Wireless and ended up falling in love with managing OpenSUSE servers in their NOC.
I do miss routing and switching, but some of it remains. Are you Cisco certified as well? Or is that not a thing nearly 2 decades later?
In any case welcome aboard! 
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Thank you for having me.
I recently got my ccnp from cisco, not sure how I feel about it, it feels like certificates don’t matter like they used to, you really have to cram your resume with about 5-6 certs at least to get some attention from companies ( of course this is only applies in my country, I don’t know about other places).
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Agreed! I’m also in the boat that work experience, being deeply passionate/enjoy what you do to the point of always seeking and learning outside of exam preps and school; makes for the best employees.
One can have a million certs, but if the above isn’t true, they could remain average and ineffective at what they do.
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Yes Sir!
This is what it’s all about enjoying your work.
Honestly most of the guys in our field are great and don’t care about the resume as much as your own knowledge but you know that HR filter won’t let you see them.
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Hello. Greetings to all members of the Linux community. I’m an old retiree, learning Linux and AI, I’ve found you looking for information on how to install Deep Seek in Debian, my OS is Sparky.
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Welcome @Tableton. How do you like Sparky? How long have you been using it? When looking for a gaming-oriented distro, I was interested in their “gaming edition” but was unsuccessful with the install. I found CachyOS and that install went very smoothly. On a side note: It uses KDE Plasma desktop – and I’m liking what I see there.
BTW: Another retiree here. 
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Welcome to the Linux community! As for Sparky, anything Debian-based sounds like my cup of 
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Hi IronRod. Thank you for the welcome.
One of my weaknesses is to try distros and for that I usually have a multiboot created with rEFInd to boot different systems among which are different distributions
of both Windows and Linux.
I had a good experience installing the GamerOver edition of Sparky with the
xfce desktop, and I stayed using it as my preferred system for about 2 years now. Although I really like and use Garuda with the Hyprland desktop that works based on Wayland which as you know will be the substitute for X11 as time goes by.
At some point I will test your CachyOS recommendation with the veteran KDE Plasma.
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Hello hydn. Thank you for the welcome.
Of course. You’re absolutely right when it comes to Debian.
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Hi, I am Matheus!
I am a electronics technician working on deploying applications for edge devices that run Linux/GNU OS.
Looking to learn from you and add where I can. Best, Matheus.
I also am a professional 3D CAD designer and love 3d printing.
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We come to the community guys! Don’t let your first post be your last. See you in the forums! 
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what up. started with arch currently using alma. ex-Chef that earned a comptia cert during covid because why not. started with linux because I don’t particularly like the man. arch is awesome but the mods and higher ups are turds. alma is steady and has been great maybe not as exciting as arch but I probably get more done it. looking forward for linux on my macbook air… eventually. Love learning how the computer operates and it’s fun to start to utilize it’s full capabilities. Mavis Beacon talk me how to type on a Gateway 2000. Currently learning Nvim, Apache, Julia/python, a little html/css, and the almighty command line. technology is awesome but it has made people stupid starting with the automatic transmission.
good to be here
-orpheus
men have become the tools of their tools ~thoreau
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Hi @orpheus Welcome to the forums. Hope to see you around!
Hi, I’m Bob, 72 years old (but my head is still 22…lol…) Windows user all my life but looking to change to Linux. Tried Mint on virtual machine, but my laptops are old, ( Lenovo Ideapad, 13 yrs old and Dell Inspiron a bit older ) Before I buy a new Desktop, I wanted to experiment with Linux and learn a bit more. My PC usage is average. Mainly surfing, Youtube, some word and excel. I don’t download much except the odd software and my gaming is limited because of specs of my laptops, no COD or Fortnite for me…lol. I updated the hard drive to ssd and upgraded ram but graphics cards are poor. I’d say my PC skills regarding hardware are average. I learn most of what I know from Youtube vids and forums. Looking forward to scouring Forums here and learn what I can. Thank you in advance to everyone here who has and does contribute so much to these Forums.
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I hope to be 72 and 20’s brain too someday. Replying on mobile brb.
Welcome, to the forums! @Papadad111 I’ve now read your post in full. My response is continued here: Windows-like Linux Distros
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Welcome @Papadad111; same generation here. I went fully LinuxMint a few years ago on all of my computers (desktop, laptop, media server, DAW). It has worked very well and reliably for me. Yet, at this point, I am actually looking around and considering other distros. I’ve been evaluating CachyOS and looking into EndeavorOS – both Arch-based. While I’m comfortable with the Debian-base of LinuxMint, just been wondering if it’s time to stretch a bit.
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@IronRod. Many thanks for this. Yep, it’s time to switch to Linux for me. Just a matter of time now. Running Win 10 at this moment, but just totally disillusioned with Microsoft on the whole, especially last 2 years. Everyone here will know what I mean. I only get a couple of hours at night on the computer (my wife is ill) so learning takes me a wee bit longer, but we’ll get there.
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