dos to linux

My journey from DOS to Linux!

Yes I am that young :D

And today is my Birthday!

I wrote my master’s thesis on my university’s brand new DOS computer with a green screen and a printer that made more noise than a truck.

Went through all of Windows, from 3. to win10, except vista off coarse.

My favorites were 7 and XP. Then everything went downhill.

A week into win11 I realized how much I am fed up with this s**t. f**k w*d*s.

I will miss photoshop and lightroom though.

The big switch was to Linux Mint, on a dual boot, because I was scared to death from the terminal.

After exploring tty I realized that I can fix things as much as I can f**k up other things (never did rm -rf / though haha!).

So I started my new journey in installing and fixing things (especially nvidia) with the terminal and very basic bash scripting.

From mint went on to Ubuntu for 2 months (didn’t like it, reminded me of windows BS again, I know most of you will disagree and hate this but, ...my opinion).

If Ubuntu is Debian based so why not go to the source: Debian Gnome stable, testing, sid and i3 (loved it).

Now I am on Arch and Hyprland (yaaaay!).

I managed to f**k up 4 installations till now.

I am still learning and consider myself a newbie, because I am.

Went through lots of videos and wiki pages and now I do most things in terminal! (another yaaay! Although most of you know things I am still dreaming of learning).

Thank you and… Wish me a Happy Birthday if you want!

Because everybody is still drunk and didn’t realize its my birthday today.

My very simple setup:

Hyprland, waybar, fuzzel (was wofi before uwsm), foot, nemo, librewolf & firefox, swaync, btop, nano, ranger and vim (still learning how to use them).

What I don’t have:

Args, hyprdots, ewww, cava, hyprpanel etc.