boy am I glad I have a basic understanding of linux thanks to you guys.

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On 2021-07-03 19:18, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I like the plug group, why try to chime in when I can.  Some
> environments are almost toxic trying to ask question or get support
> (ahem, arch linux chats), but try to not be those folks.
> 
> My first exposure to unix was in 99, my first tech job, we had a
> solaris shell account on our network management server to hit
> everything we wanted in an isp network.  In 2000 at a new job, I
> learned what linux was with some coworkers teaching me linux and
> solaris simultaneously, and installed slackware on my server for
> years.  It served me well for years, breaking, rebuilding, learning,
> and other things that acquainted me to the experience.  Learning linux
> prepared me for the future, learning other distros and cross-linux
> disciplines to be somewhat productive in an industry even if not a
> system administrator or anything in particular.  I do mostly network
> and security, and linux rules these, even if vendors name themselves
> as something else, they all end of day run linux, which at least lets
> you know where they and you subsequently live.
> 
> Learning never goes out of vogue, keep doing it.  Even windoze.  I'd
> suggest even if pirating (or pay cheaply [1]) a copy of windoze server
> learning Active Directory and other windoze things to boot.  At this
> point, you'll never escape windoze.  Funny now that microsoft's best
> selling platform *is* linux now, but still good to know both worlds as
> they become inseparable.
> 
> -mb

Windows is everywhere.  Run what works best.  How far the community has 
come.  I think most hate M$.  20 years ago you would have got some 
heated push back (flames) for your Windows comments.  Good that the 
community is becoming more understanding.




> 
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 11:17 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> Today I ran  the update manager to  get the new version of
>> darktable
>> and it failed w/o telling me why.Because of the knowledge I attained
>> from you over the years I was able to open a terminal and to run apt
>> and find out what was wrong. It urns out one of the packages had
>> unmet
>> dependencies. Luckily the problem  was easily resolved by installing
>> the package (apt-utils) separately. I didn't have to waste anyones
>> time aside from the time it takes to read this message of gratitude.
>> 
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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