Linux

I have been using/testing Linux on various devices since 2015. Since 2020/2021, I am full-time on Linux for development, gaming, and all other projects.

Current Desktop OS: LMDE (with a heavily modified Cinnamon Desktop)

Current Laptop OS: Customized Aurora bootc containerOS (with a KDE desktop)

Various contributions (financial and others) to open-source and free software projects. Organizations:

• Linux Mint (website) ¹

  • PR #12218
  • commit 6420262
  • PR #6272
  • commit d6bedb1
  • PR #432
  • commit e744ee4
  • PR #12826
  • commit b81fa3e
  • PR #13051

• XFCE (website) ¹

• XeroLinux (website) ¹

Lessons Learned:

• In open source and free software desktop projects, translations for UI apps are extremely important and utilize makepot files
• Make sure to read the full README file in every repository
• Administer a Linux system the enterprise way through my job as well as setting up a small home data center at my house:
  • Use containers and LXCs for serving applications
  • Use Incus to maintain LXCs, and VMs and podman for containers
  • Use distrobox to create containers for working on various projects
    • For example, in the development of grep-ibnet, I used an Arch Linux container with a custom home directory
  • Ansible for one-off deployments
  • Kubernetes and Openshift testing using TalOS