AlphaObeisance
Active Member
So it's been encouraged that I check out the introductions forums; so here I am. Gonna spend my morning reading some of ya'lls posts.
Suppose it's not much use reading up on everybody if nobody knows anything about me; so I'll share my tid bits, but beware I can be long winded sometimes. For an being an introvert, I sure do enjoy Linux conversation from time to time.
I go by AlphaObeisance. Idk if I'm the only one that does this or not, but my username's kind of like my alter ego so to speak; so it means something to me as it reflects my entire presence online. Alpha - the beginning, of, Obeisance - differential respect .
Not too sure where to start; I'm pretty proud of my build as it's my first remotely close to "high end" computer that I've ever had. I've generally been the guy that's 3-4 or even 5 gens behind everybody else, and this year I managed to cap my machine likely more than I'll ever be able too again.
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Just this week I upgraded from 32GB of ram that I'd been using for the past few years, to 128GB, and from an RTX 2060S to my new RTX3080. I wanted the 3090 but unfortunately I couldn't swing the extra $500-600 it would have cost me to do so; making the 4k series completely out of the question sadly. But, I'm grateful none the less, as the 3080 is still a solid step up from my 2060s. Normally there would be no logical reason for me to even desire having 128GB of RAM, but I've been studying to get my RHSCA Cert with the intent of with any luck, one day finding a career in systems administration or something of the sort. As a result, since I have no experience in that sort of thing, I found myself trying to emulate a "work place" environment of sorts, and setting up lots of VM's. So I figured the extra resources would allow me to do whatever crazy nonsense I think may help me, while not choking up my host in the process haha.
I had a few systems admin friends of mine tell me that I should be applying for jobs despite not yet having my certs. They've been watching me study and learn Linux the past 3 years and told me that the demand is high and applicants are few, so I should give it a shot. Unfortunately it really boils down to looking like everyone wants "experienced" users, but so few out there are willing to provide the opportunity to gain said experience; but I'll keep pushing for my Cert in hopes it'll act as a badge of competence in hopes someone will pick me up at some point.
As for my Linux experience; I got into it shortly after Windows 11 was announced, and like many others I was bothered by how increasingly restrictive, and invasive Windows was seemingly becoming. I'd tried Linux back in something like 2015 but Ubuntu completely turned me off to it and I ran back to windows the same day. But post the Win11 announcement, I spent a day or two reading up on how to install Linux and quite literally "abandoned ship" so to speak. I created my boot drive, slapped Ubuntu in, installed and formatted all my drives. Haven't looked back since; seems like somewhere around 3 years now?
I started with Ubuntu because the vast majority of the community still suggests that as the "go to beginners distro"; and again I was pretty much immediately turned off by it. I have no idea what my beef is with Ubuntu, but I always seemed to run into problems. I used the built in Firefox to find a distro more suited to my needs; like many others who come to Linux, I really had no idea what distro's were, or that they were built each for their own purpose.
Pop!_OS by System76 was my first transition. I found the community's discord to be quite friendly, and there always seemed to be someone willing to answer my goofy questions. Pop! Worked out the box for me, never really gave me any notable issues. I was able to get things rolling that same day, steam and lutris satisfied my gaming needs, and as a noob I felt the Pop! Shop was well thought out and convenient for a Linux newcomer.
Eventually I did start having issues with Pop! more frequently than I felt was necessary, be it Pop! or GNOME related, I just ran into annoying issues that prompted me to seek out something different. I'd been using Daily Driving Linux about 6 months at this point, and had been "studying" it more and more every day. I found myself intrigued by the idea of a DIY distro. I didn't understand why everytime I updated Pop! it would seemingly reinstall apps that I had removed i.e. Firefox and the convenience fluff that it came with. So the idea of building up my own system that only ever had what I wanted on it was really appealing to me.
I had read a lot of articles on DIY and they almost always lead back to Arch as the go to DIY distro. But eeeeeeeeeeverybody talked like Arch was an "advanced" distro for "power users" and I was too intimidated to jump into it. I decided that while I did want to use Arch some day, I should probably start slow. So I installed Manjaro thinking it would be a plug and play distro that would at least help me get used to an Arch based system prior to building one up myself. It did just that, plug and played for me right out the box. I used manjaro for another 9 months or so before trying to build my first Arch system.
My first Arch attempt was as to be expected, chaos. I studied the installation page but little else, so I lacked pretty much all of the drivers that my system would require. I tried it and for about 3 days I stared at that black screen console wondering what the heck I was doing wrong; but eventually I finally got it installed successfully. It took me couple months to get things figured out enough that I finally had not only a stable Arch system, but a stable Arch Gaming rig; and I've been here ever since.
Some might be reading *if you've made it this far* and thinking to themselves "Oh boy, another Arch user smh*, but I challenge you to give me a chance. I'm not like any other Arch user I've met yet. I don't think Arch is some kind of super distro, nor a complex one at that. In fact if someone posesses basic reading abilities just about anybody can install Arch.
The only reason I favor Arch is merely because A: I just like working with it, and B: I mean cmon dude, they've got the coolest logo in Linux, 2nd only to my variation lol!
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Also, unlike a vast majority of Arch users, I don't gate keep, and I'm 100% willing to help those with Arch inquiries, no matter how redundant the inquiry may be; or how easily it would be solved by "googling" it. While the majority of the Arch community would require you to put forth the effort to resolve issues yourself (understandably so), I just enjoy Arch Linux, and I'm happy to help regardless. Heck I'd build your system for you if I could, I legitimately just enjoy it.
Anyway, "that's bout all I gots to say bout dat". 3 years strong now and I'm still just as passionate and enthusiastic about Linux as I was after the bug bit me. I don't much care to "convert" people to Linux, but if I see some noob deliberately seeking to get into Linux; I'm jumping on that like white on rice in hopes to make their transition easier than mine had been.
I'm trying to learn to code on the side. Recently wrote my first bash script backup utility to serve the purpose of backing up my game dedicated servers; posted about that little experience over in Linux Gaming if you'd like to read how that little adventure went. I'm pretty proud of having accomplished that, having never code before.
Aside of all that. I'm 33, got a wife and 3 kids, and this years kicked the crap out of me in ways inevitable to everybody. Lost my mother to Cancer in early August, and a bunch of other crap. So I've dove into Linux even harder than I ever have before. Determined to make something of myself and find a purpose within the community. Ideally starting a career with all that I have learned.
Anyway, that's my little intro novel. Good to meet ya'll.
Suppose it's not much use reading up on everybody if nobody knows anything about me; so I'll share my tid bits, but beware I can be long winded sometimes. For an being an introvert, I sure do enjoy Linux conversation from time to time.
I go by AlphaObeisance. Idk if I'm the only one that does this or not, but my username's kind of like my alter ego so to speak; so it means something to me as it reflects my entire presence online. Alpha - the beginning, of, Obeisance - differential respect .
Not too sure where to start; I'm pretty proud of my build as it's my first remotely close to "high end" computer that I've ever had. I've generally been the guy that's 3-4 or even 5 gens behind everybody else, and this year I managed to cap my machine likely more than I'll ever be able too again.
View attachment IMG_0034.JPGView attachment IMG_0033.JPG
Just this week I upgraded from 32GB of ram that I'd been using for the past few years, to 128GB, and from an RTX 2060S to my new RTX3080. I wanted the 3090 but unfortunately I couldn't swing the extra $500-600 it would have cost me to do so; making the 4k series completely out of the question sadly. But, I'm grateful none the less, as the 3080 is still a solid step up from my 2060s. Normally there would be no logical reason for me to even desire having 128GB of RAM, but I've been studying to get my RHSCA Cert with the intent of with any luck, one day finding a career in systems administration or something of the sort. As a result, since I have no experience in that sort of thing, I found myself trying to emulate a "work place" environment of sorts, and setting up lots of VM's. So I figured the extra resources would allow me to do whatever crazy nonsense I think may help me, while not choking up my host in the process haha.
I had a few systems admin friends of mine tell me that I should be applying for jobs despite not yet having my certs. They've been watching me study and learn Linux the past 3 years and told me that the demand is high and applicants are few, so I should give it a shot. Unfortunately it really boils down to looking like everyone wants "experienced" users, but so few out there are willing to provide the opportunity to gain said experience; but I'll keep pushing for my Cert in hopes it'll act as a badge of competence in hopes someone will pick me up at some point.
As for my Linux experience; I got into it shortly after Windows 11 was announced, and like many others I was bothered by how increasingly restrictive, and invasive Windows was seemingly becoming. I'd tried Linux back in something like 2015 but Ubuntu completely turned me off to it and I ran back to windows the same day. But post the Win11 announcement, I spent a day or two reading up on how to install Linux and quite literally "abandoned ship" so to speak. I created my boot drive, slapped Ubuntu in, installed and formatted all my drives. Haven't looked back since; seems like somewhere around 3 years now?
I started with Ubuntu because the vast majority of the community still suggests that as the "go to beginners distro"; and again I was pretty much immediately turned off by it. I have no idea what my beef is with Ubuntu, but I always seemed to run into problems. I used the built in Firefox to find a distro more suited to my needs; like many others who come to Linux, I really had no idea what distro's were, or that they were built each for their own purpose.
Pop!_OS by System76 was my first transition. I found the community's discord to be quite friendly, and there always seemed to be someone willing to answer my goofy questions. Pop! Worked out the box for me, never really gave me any notable issues. I was able to get things rolling that same day, steam and lutris satisfied my gaming needs, and as a noob I felt the Pop! Shop was well thought out and convenient for a Linux newcomer.
Eventually I did start having issues with Pop! more frequently than I felt was necessary, be it Pop! or GNOME related, I just ran into annoying issues that prompted me to seek out something different. I'd been using Daily Driving Linux about 6 months at this point, and had been "studying" it more and more every day. I found myself intrigued by the idea of a DIY distro. I didn't understand why everytime I updated Pop! it would seemingly reinstall apps that I had removed i.e. Firefox and the convenience fluff that it came with. So the idea of building up my own system that only ever had what I wanted on it was really appealing to me.
I had read a lot of articles on DIY and they almost always lead back to Arch as the go to DIY distro. But eeeeeeeeeeverybody talked like Arch was an "advanced" distro for "power users" and I was too intimidated to jump into it. I decided that while I did want to use Arch some day, I should probably start slow. So I installed Manjaro thinking it would be a plug and play distro that would at least help me get used to an Arch based system prior to building one up myself. It did just that, plug and played for me right out the box. I used manjaro for another 9 months or so before trying to build my first Arch system.
My first Arch attempt was as to be expected, chaos. I studied the installation page but little else, so I lacked pretty much all of the drivers that my system would require. I tried it and for about 3 days I stared at that black screen console wondering what the heck I was doing wrong; but eventually I finally got it installed successfully. It took me couple months to get things figured out enough that I finally had not only a stable Arch system, but a stable Arch Gaming rig; and I've been here ever since.
Some might be reading *if you've made it this far* and thinking to themselves "Oh boy, another Arch user smh*, but I challenge you to give me a chance. I'm not like any other Arch user I've met yet. I don't think Arch is some kind of super distro, nor a complex one at that. In fact if someone posesses basic reading abilities just about anybody can install Arch.
The only reason I favor Arch is merely because A: I just like working with it, and B: I mean cmon dude, they've got the coolest logo in Linux, 2nd only to my variation lol!
. Also, unlike a vast majority of Arch users, I don't gate keep, and I'm 100% willing to help those with Arch inquiries, no matter how redundant the inquiry may be; or how easily it would be solved by "googling" it. While the majority of the Arch community would require you to put forth the effort to resolve issues yourself (understandably so), I just enjoy Arch Linux, and I'm happy to help regardless. Heck I'd build your system for you if I could, I legitimately just enjoy it.
Anyway, "that's bout all I gots to say bout dat". 3 years strong now and I'm still just as passionate and enthusiastic about Linux as I was after the bug bit me. I don't much care to "convert" people to Linux, but if I see some noob deliberately seeking to get into Linux; I'm jumping on that like white on rice in hopes to make their transition easier than mine had been.
I'm trying to learn to code on the side. Recently wrote my first bash script backup utility to serve the purpose of backing up my game dedicated servers; posted about that little experience over in Linux Gaming if you'd like to read how that little adventure went. I'm pretty proud of having accomplished that, having never code before.
Aside of all that. I'm 33, got a wife and 3 kids, and this years kicked the crap out of me in ways inevitable to everybody. Lost my mother to Cancer in early August, and a bunch of other crap. So I've dove into Linux even harder than I ever have before. Determined to make something of myself and find a purpose within the community. Ideally starting a career with all that I have learned.
Anyway, that's my little intro novel. Good to meet ya'll.
