Yes, today is the 14th anniversary of this humble blog, which I created to register my experiences as a Linux user.
What has changed since last year?
1. Stability and fewer posts
Well, the Linux distros I use have become so stable that I rarely face a challenge. This has reduced my post quantity.
Plus, where I work, they have decided to keep people extremely busy, so free time is rare.
2. Portable Linux machines: always reliable!
In the university where I work, they did a suspicious full 180 turn and switched to Microsoft products. However, that has not stopped me from using Linux for my work every day: I always use USB drives, which I made portable Linux machines, to stream my virtual lessons and teach in class as well.
As the classroom computers have low specs, MX Linux is my distro of choice. In my office computer, I generally use Mageia 9. If fact, I am synchronizing my portable Mageia machines right now following this old post here.
3. The new exam notification system
This week, they sent an email about a new oral exam notification system. The funny thing was that they said that it only worked on a Windows computer and urged us NOT TO USE MACs. Many of my colleagues are Mac users, so I grew curious and decided to test it from my Linux station. It worked perfectly!
I then replied informing them that the system ran flawlessly from Linux, he,he.
4. My laptop distros
I upgraded most of the distros and my old ZaReason Strata runs Mageia 9, OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 ROME, Manjaro 23.1, MX Linux, and Elive 3.
I do not use this machine often because the battery is dead and I could never get a replacement. So, I must keep it plugged to UPS all the time.
5. A nephew's migration
My sister in law's son called me once because he installed Linux Mint to a laptop and ran into a problem. I tried to help him to the best of my abilities and the piece of advice I gave them worked: he could solve his first Linux challenge.
6. My wife's English course
My wife took an English course and she was very worried because all the software was Microsoft's. Or so they said.
However, the platform was Moodle and she could work from my Mageia desktop. Las Monday was her final exam. Everything went fine because Firefox played the audios for the listening exam without a problem.
And that's that. My productivity has not been affected because of the stability of Linux this year. So, I am focusing on my health, my daughter's high school matters, and my family in general.
All is good!
