The Linux End User Era has Finally Begun

• [ ] Gimp runs smoothest of all on Linux, which is incredible considering the machine I’m using is 10 years old. OBS? “The 4 Best Twitter Clients for Linux” ”The Computer Itself” - scrounge “Microsoft Open Sources Over 60,000 Patents to Protect Linux” - It’s FOSS A list of handheld/pocket Linux computers - Reddit “[Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation, 15 years after Ballmer called it ‘cancer’](http://Microsoft%20joins%20the%20Linux%20Foundation,%2015%20years%20after%20Ballmer%20called%20it)” - The Verge "Contributing to Open Source” - FLOSS Weekly Unfortunately, Linux people seem to be universally bizarre… “Microsoft points to a golden future where you can make Windows 10 your own” - The Register We really haven’t been asking for much have we?… The culture has not kept up with the technological progression, hence Terry Davis’ use of the N-word in this video? - - - -

In the summer of 2008, I was fourteen and my mom worked 60+ hours a week. I delivered the Columbia Daily Tribune for the last year before they established adulthood and a car as requirements for the position - my only “real” media industry job to date - and in retrospect, I wonder if it was my dramatic refusal to deliver any papers the day the wind scattered all of them across my yard (forcing my supervisor to return to gather and deliver them all, several hours late) that contributed to the decision. #software