I personalty had a baptism by fire as it regards my coming to Linux, in that I chose to start my journey by configuring and deploying a file and print server for my family's LAN via the use of a pre IBM buyout release of Red Hat. This experience then led me backwards to revaluation my use of M$ Wind$$s as my operating system of choice however, I was stuck with Windows at the time because not only was I into playing triple a title of the day but I was also in Middle and later High school where I had no choice but to use Microsoft Windows and Office.
Around this time I also happened to find Debian now mind you this was back in the early 2000s. When it was nearly impossible to use any Linux distribution of the day without the proverbial requirement that you hand compile tools like the bw43-fw cutter utility which was necessary to get a broad-com based Wi-Fi adapter to work correctly. At this time I was also using an NVIDIA gpu which came wit it's on sack of difficulties.
I remember that in order to get the aforementioned hardware to work correctly I'd have to manually add the non-free repositories directly into my /etc/apt/sources.list file.
Around this time I also happened to find Debian now mind you this was back in the early 2000s. When it was nearly impossible to use any Linux distribution of the day without the proverbial requirement that you hand compile tools like the bw43-fw cutter utility which was necessary to get a broad-com based Wi-Fi adapter to work correctly. At this time I was also using an NVIDIA gpu which came wit it's on sack of difficulties.
I remember that in order to get the aforementioned hardware to work correctly I'd have to manually add the non-free repositories directly into my /etc/apt/sources.list file.
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