This is a common saying here in Spain and.
Well……. It is!
Spain is a very odd place, in a good way off course! But then again. It could be argued the same for all places where humans live and interact for a prologued period of time.
Today I will talk about something that affects me in some direct way since it has to do with the job I do for a living. First and second level Linux Support.
I work for a very important company whose main system runs on Linux. I take care of any incidents and solve problems within the systems on a regular basis along with 5 other colleages.
But they unlike me.
Never use Linux at home!
I got this job mainly because I am a Linux freak and speak english fluently which is rather rare here in Spain ( the english speaking part as Linux is well and healthy here) and for what I have found by talking to a few people over the net. Linux freaks are the ones that get these jobs. We think, breathe, eat and love Linux as if it was the last renmant of sanity in a $ crazed computer controled world (which it is!) I’m a noob by my colleages standards, but I have been using Linux as my main desktop for over 4 years now.
I freaked out when I arrived at my working desk to find a copy of Win XP. We connect to the sites by using an emulator!!!!!! A UNIX emulator from Windows to connect to a Linux workstation! Now that is odd. Or at least it seems to me. When I asked what distro they used at home. They looked at me in disbelief.
You use Linux at home?
You get out of work and turn on a computer at home?
Yes!!!! I use computers at home.
Am I sick?
Am I suffering some form of addiction I just can’t realize I have?
I use my PC to make music. (Sadly still in windows as I have a large amount of money invested in small developer’s specialized music software.)
To call my friends in Australia, USA and South America.
To send mails and partake in forums and even to make my nice fractals and landscapes.
My whole life moves around the PC. It used to move around my ego and then my guitar (an extension of my former ego that has become my alter ego now)
But these people. Despise the PC. They don’t even want to look at a Linux distro! and they work with Linux everyday of their lives.
Now that is weird in the strangest sense of the word.
Anybody else out there like them?
I just find it amusing actually.
Now back to my Mepis Desktop to do some more writing.
