Yesterday, I was working phone support. I work for an #ISP. A man called in, he was 83 years old, with a problem. He just upgraded to #Windows 10 and his computer would no longer connect to the wireless network. He then asked me, "Young man, do you remember the good old days? When you could modify your computer any way you want? I think it must have been Windows 98. Nah, you are probably too young."
I said to him, "Oh I remember. That was back before every big company was - 1/3
collection data and selling it."
"Yes," said he, "I remember those days. I am thinking about getting rid of my computers. I don't need all of that."
"I don't blame you." Said I.
"But..." he started with a curiously mischievous grin that I could hear over the phone, "I recently found something amazing. It is called #Slackware #Linux. Have you heard of it?"
Astounded and amazed, I responded, "Heard of it? That is what I run on my computer right now!"
"Is it any good?"
At this - 2/3
point we got into a discussion about the benefits of different Linux distros. I gave him a number of websites to visit and before we hung up, he had booted into a Slackware Live disk and was thanking me for giving him the freedom to change his computer as he saw fit.
I was obliged to tell him. "Don't thank me, thank Patrick #Volkerding and Alien "Bob" and Linus #Torvalds and the whole free software movement. - 3/3
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@cnx
He didn't know about Slackware, he only knew about a thing called 'Linux'
@bonifartius
yup @bonifartius i’m sus at @herag as well, a 83yo man is either not knowing about slackware at all or has been running it in the last two decades. there’s no in between