What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?

  • Captain Aggravated
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    1 year ago

    Ham Radio, the Raspberry Pi and Windows 8.1.

    I first heard about a Raspberry Pi on the 2 meter band, someone mentioned making contacts in Europe with one. Sounded intriguing. I wanted to work digital modes but didn’t really want to hook up my laptop to my radio for fear of wiring it wrong, so I bought a Raspberry Pi. Which runs Debian Linux. I learned how to cd and ls and sudo and apt-get.

    Then that laptop I was being so precious with suffered a monitor backlight failure. And it was time for a new laptop. This was in 2014, Windows 8.1 was on the shelves at that point.

    I was enjoying using the Pi at the time, and decided to try running Linux on my new laptop instead of Windows. And I’ve been using Linux Mint ever since.