Your welcome. There is a number of us old farts that frequent the Gentoo forums. I am not there to often, but there are some regulars like NeddySeagoon that really know something.
It takes time to learn, but for those that have the personal drive to learn, there is more to learn than you can learn in one lifetime.
The biggest problem with Linux I have seen over the years. Is that the propriety software developers, m$, apple, adobe, intel, the four biggest infringers. Have for over 20 years done everything they can to keep people away from Linux. Compromising education institutions, bullying computer assemblers. Dell, Compaq, and others filed complaints with the US Federal Attorney General, providing emails, letters, and other evidence. When the first Amd64 bit desktop processors came out, m$ & intel were still more than a year from having 64 bit capability. They stopped Linux & Amd from putting their 64 bit systems on the shelves. I had a 64 bit system long before m$ & intel did. That is why in Linux when they refer to 64 bit, it is Amd64, because AMD did it first.
The US Gov. has all the facts, but have sat on it. The Clinton administration convicted m$ in the 1990's for crimes, the Bush administration made the sanctions go away. Starting early 2000 Gentoo and other Linux flavors were outright attacked by people most probably paid by m$. The forums were full of disruptive posting that seemingly appeared to be very informative correct information. But was actually used to incite fear & steer people away from Linux. Websites running m$ asp for their website, would not load in a Linux browser. Causing people who tried Linux, to go back to m$ because one of their favorite websites did not work with Linux.
They are big advertising spenders. Therefore they have been able to keep Linux articles to a minimum in the typical normal media, stop it's mention in US education. I returned to College in 2012, the intro computer course textbook, was history rewritten. I was taking a Linux class taught by a guy that was retired from Bell Labs, had been on the team that wrote the C language back in the 1960's. He is why I took the class, but had to take the intro computer class to get into his class.
The intro computer class did not have one mention of Linux or RiscOS, only m$, apple, intel, adobe. Even though the whole internet ran on Linux, and RiscOS did desktop GUI stuff before anyone else. Every desktop after RiscOS has stuff/ideas that was originated by the RiscOS team. Which were the same people that designed the original Arm processor, they needed an OS for their processor. Not one mention in any textbook. I knew about it because I was alive and using computers back then. I asked the professor about it, she refused to answer. I think she was intimidated as I knew more than she did, all she knew was which button to push with the propriety software she was selling to the students. I feel real bad for students nowadays, they are being mislead about the history of computers. They are being used as revenue producers rather than students there to learn.
Despite the whole internet, every small device, every router, every switch, every automobile, 500 of the top 500 super computers run Linux. Not one mention of Linux.
https://www.riscosopen.org/content/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OS
There was a time years ago, was 1 then 2 then 3, super computers that ran windows, now there is none. Check out the statistics page.
https://www.top500.org/
There is the SCO scandal. m$ got busted paying other companies to pursue litigation against Linux. Not only did they litigate Linux software developers, but corporations that used Linux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%...x_disputes
Someone new to Linux has no idea were to start, or where to look. So I try to spread the good word.
When I do read something in the media about Linux, it is usually some scary security bug, that in actuality is not nearly as bad as they make it sound. Not a peep about the 1,00's if not 1,000's of m$ serious security bugs. The lists of which is the best Linux, rarely have Gentoo or Slackware in the list. Even though Slackware is one of the very oldest. They never mention any compiled flavor or any without SystemD. They never mention the daily updates Linux gets, unlike the once a month m$. Which system do you think is more secure, the one getting once a month updates, or the one getting daily updates. It is all a real shame.
It is up to those of us that actually know something about Linux to spread the word. In the hope that the free thinkers will break away from the followers. The truth is out there, but you are going to have to put in some work to find it, as it is overrun by the paid for drivel.
It takes time to learn, but for those that have the personal drive to learn, there is more to learn than you can learn in one lifetime.
The biggest problem with Linux I have seen over the years. Is that the propriety software developers, m$, apple, adobe, intel, the four biggest infringers. Have for over 20 years done everything they can to keep people away from Linux. Compromising education institutions, bullying computer assemblers. Dell, Compaq, and others filed complaints with the US Federal Attorney General, providing emails, letters, and other evidence. When the first Amd64 bit desktop processors came out, m$ & intel were still more than a year from having 64 bit capability. They stopped Linux & Amd from putting their 64 bit systems on the shelves. I had a 64 bit system long before m$ & intel did. That is why in Linux when they refer to 64 bit, it is Amd64, because AMD did it first.
The US Gov. has all the facts, but have sat on it. The Clinton administration convicted m$ in the 1990's for crimes, the Bush administration made the sanctions go away. Starting early 2000 Gentoo and other Linux flavors were outright attacked by people most probably paid by m$. The forums were full of disruptive posting that seemingly appeared to be very informative correct information. But was actually used to incite fear & steer people away from Linux. Websites running m$ asp for their website, would not load in a Linux browser. Causing people who tried Linux, to go back to m$ because one of their favorite websites did not work with Linux.
They are big advertising spenders. Therefore they have been able to keep Linux articles to a minimum in the typical normal media, stop it's mention in US education. I returned to College in 2012, the intro computer course textbook, was history rewritten. I was taking a Linux class taught by a guy that was retired from Bell Labs, had been on the team that wrote the C language back in the 1960's. He is why I took the class, but had to take the intro computer class to get into his class.
The intro computer class did not have one mention of Linux or RiscOS, only m$, apple, intel, adobe. Even though the whole internet ran on Linux, and RiscOS did desktop GUI stuff before anyone else. Every desktop after RiscOS has stuff/ideas that was originated by the RiscOS team. Which were the same people that designed the original Arm processor, they needed an OS for their processor. Not one mention in any textbook. I knew about it because I was alive and using computers back then. I asked the professor about it, she refused to answer. I think she was intimidated as I knew more than she did, all she knew was which button to push with the propriety software she was selling to the students. I feel real bad for students nowadays, they are being mislead about the history of computers. They are being used as revenue producers rather than students there to learn.
Despite the whole internet, every small device, every router, every switch, every automobile, 500 of the top 500 super computers run Linux. Not one mention of Linux.
https://www.riscosopen.org/content/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OS
There was a time years ago, was 1 then 2 then 3, super computers that ran windows, now there is none. Check out the statistics page.
https://www.top500.org/
There is the SCO scandal. m$ got busted paying other companies to pursue litigation against Linux. Not only did they litigate Linux software developers, but corporations that used Linux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%...x_disputes
Someone new to Linux has no idea were to start, or where to look. So I try to spread the good word.
When I do read something in the media about Linux, it is usually some scary security bug, that in actuality is not nearly as bad as they make it sound. Not a peep about the 1,00's if not 1,000's of m$ serious security bugs. The lists of which is the best Linux, rarely have Gentoo or Slackware in the list. Even though Slackware is one of the very oldest. They never mention any compiled flavor or any without SystemD. They never mention the daily updates Linux gets, unlike the once a month m$. Which system do you think is more secure, the one getting once a month updates, or the one getting daily updates. It is all a real shame.
It is up to those of us that actually know something about Linux to spread the word. In the hope that the free thinkers will break away from the followers. The truth is out there, but you are going to have to put in some work to find it, as it is overrun by the paid for drivel.