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Sunday of last week rolled around and the boring reality of having nothing to do that day settled in, so my buddy and I went to the new Best Buy that opened up 3 months ago to browse around and see if we could find some deals, since the week previous we had found some random items on a one day sale that were cheaper than even NewEgg.
Walking in to the one aisle, my ears perked up when I heard a Linux discussion just a few feet away, between a younger Best Buy employee and an older gentleman.
Listening more, it became apparent both of them were very familiar with Ubuntu. The employee seemed to be more of a Windows guy due to the nature of his job, as well as being a pretty hardcore gamer. The older gentleman though sounded like he had been a Windows user since Microsoft was even founded, and only recently (within the last year) had gotten into the Linux scene. A couple minutes pass and the discussion dissipates. I spark up conversation with the man by simply saying, "Ubuntu fan, huh?" He smiled and said yep - it's all I use now. He talked more by saying how Ubuntu is the only OS in his house now. Both of his kids and his wife even got in on it and had it installed on their computers. Everything is networked together and he expressed how everybody picked up the OS without much issue at all. Of course, AFTER they learned what programs in Ubuntu compare to the known titles they were already familiar with in Windows.
After I left I realized this was the first time I ever ran into a perfect stranger and was able to spark up some sort of conversation like this. And go figure, being the tech nerd I am it'd be something computer related. At the end of the day, I knew the guy's job history, what his family was like, and what his background was like, but I had no clue what his first name was.
Go figure.
Walking in to the one aisle, my ears perked up when I heard a Linux discussion just a few feet away, between a younger Best Buy employee and an older gentleman.
Listening more, it became apparent both of them were very familiar with Ubuntu. The employee seemed to be more of a Windows guy due to the nature of his job, as well as being a pretty hardcore gamer. The older gentleman though sounded like he had been a Windows user since Microsoft was even founded, and only recently (within the last year) had gotten into the Linux scene. A couple minutes pass and the discussion dissipates. I spark up conversation with the man by simply saying, "Ubuntu fan, huh?" He smiled and said yep - it's all I use now. He talked more by saying how Ubuntu is the only OS in his house now. Both of his kids and his wife even got in on it and had it installed on their computers. Everything is networked together and he expressed how everybody picked up the OS without much issue at all. Of course, AFTER they learned what programs in Ubuntu compare to the known titles they were already familiar with in Windows.
After I left I realized this was the first time I ever ran into a perfect stranger and was able to spark up some sort of conversation like this. And go figure, being the tech nerd I am it'd be something computer related. At the end of the day, I knew the guy's job history, what his family was like, and what his background was like, but I had no clue what his first name was.
Go figure.