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Comment by Svoka | Hacker News Reader

I did a small ask around the room in the office, no one heard about Knoppix. Good for them, I guess.

It's okay to flaunt your ignorance if you can claim that your peers are ignorant as well, I guess. Knoppix was one of the first, if not the first, popular live CD distributions.

The other day at the office, I was the only one that had heard of, let alone used, Slackware. I am also the oldest in the team, this is probably no coincidence.

I have worked at more than one place where I was the only one who had heard of Linux. I skip paraphrasing the 'let alone used' part, for of course everyone was using it in their routers and phones and proverbial toasters.

It is my clear impression that many Windows users would be hard pressed to explain what 'Windows' is and does.

Oh God. I've embarked on a project to try to relearn how Windows works again, and I'm actually having a terrifying time of it.

I"m starting to realize where so many holes in my understanding exist, and abhor how for so long I was just content to accept most things in Windows just happened.

Then I started actually digging into log files and various software distro's and tried to connect all the dots.

Long story short, nothing scares me more now than a computer program that I can't explain why it's doing what it's doing. SystemD falls into that trap for me. It may just be a case of sitting down and reverse engineering it until it clicks, but until then, I'd rather not trust anything important to it.

I started my Linux journey in ~2002 with Slackware to get ipchains ip masquerade (nat) working for multiple machines to share a modem connection. Today I prefer Arch or Debian but Slack will always be that first that popped the cherry.

I think you know how your comment sounds, and I think you also know that is not a nice way to interact with other people.

Logan's Run? :)

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