I started on Mac and installed Linux on a PS3 just to see if I could, where does that put me on the spectrum
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My first usage of tech was my parents Apple 2E. So I don't know what that means... It wasn't Windows or Mac (the 2E is pre Macintosh).
Started on Mac. Still use one as my (not so-) daily driver. In the ~30 years in between, I've (professionally) been a PC field service technician, mainframe operator, datacenter tech, enterprise monitoring administrator, and a whole slew of other tech hats. In my personal time, I learned OS 7-8 inside and out (ResEdit ftw), built PCs out of spare parts (throwing Linux on some just to do it), turned an old tower into an external SCSI enclosure, built VM stacks for fun (DOS 6.2, Win 3.1, Win95 all on the same Mac box decades ago, just because I could), half-wired my parents' house for ethernet, built them a Hackintosh from parts, stuck a Linux VM on an old laptop to host Citrix so I could remote into work and have that one extra layer between personal and business, and gotten completely disillusioned with tech as a hobby and as the framework for modern society.
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Linux users are inherently more tech savvy because there are no limits. On the contrary, there is documentation and free knowledge aplenty. Windows and especially Mac hide and obfuscate everything happening under the hood and you are vaguely warned away from doing anything not specifically blessed by the corporation. That's why those users are less tech savvy on average.
Mac use to be much more open and direct about things. Even the pre-unix Macs were more obvious then Windows of the same era. Unix Mac was way, way more adjustable and while it's not system related, shipped with iMovie and other bits of software for creating things.
Make the study about iPad/mobile computer kids verse desktop kids and you'll see a sharper contrast.
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First machine was an Apple IIe, second was MS-DOS, I want to say version 6.2.
Dislike the idea that only autistic people use linux.
I'd be kinda ok with someone jokingly saying that about themselves when they're actually autistic. But just randomly calling a stranger autistic in association with a specific interest is so regressive and insulting.
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Only the ones who install it at 12
I did that, not autistic.
I too have never been diagnosed, but I do have my suspicions.
Have you been screened for diagnosis? Because if not, there's not a great way to tell you aren't autistic. Autism occurs in even the most functional people and masking is a skill many autistic people develop to fit in without realizing they are doing it.
I don't see a reason to go for a screening without evidence to indicate I might be autistic. It may cost money to get screened, and what's the point in getting a diagnosis even if I am autistic?
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Lemmy Linux bros make me avoid Linux at all costs
I feel the same, I'm genuinely starting to despise Linux users because of this site. Worse than vegans.
Linux bros are like Rick and Morty fans. No matter how much you’re enjoying your pc experience they have to jump in to tell you that you’re wrong and everything that isn’t Linux sucks
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Woah, that's crazy
Yeah I use Linux but I also hate people who shame people who use windows because it does what they need.
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Cool story....bro
I've been using pop OS for 5 years and barely understand anything at all, we're not all super nerds. I got it to save a bit of upfront money on a new build with the plan to buy windows when I needed it, never needed it.
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Keeping you off Linux has been the goal all along
I enjoyed a lemmy moment in the thread about things the Canadian government needs to do to not be as dependent on the US and the first bullet point in a comment was switch to Linux
a lot of governments did that after the whole thing with Ed Snowden….
for one: the US puts backdoors in all sorts of software… has been doing it for years….
for two: software is a pretty big part of how governments do things.
for three: doesn’t matter until they start making their own microchips….
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