Wow that article was a ride. I feel so happy to not have used windows in the past 5 or so years.

Plot twist: you elder brother has been the lead KDE propagandist all along.

I don’t know man, those tools - they seem rusty to me.

Forgor the /s

Aye, I can’t argue with that

I have read this a hundred times and it’s still as beautiful as the day I first read it.

Yesss let’s go.

I can finally die in peace.

I have never contributed directly to open source, perhaps because I have never felt truly confident about my programming skills. But I have always done all that I can - starring repos I like, helping beginners with linux related issues, contributing to discussions in forums, promoting foss in a friendly way wherever I can and leaving feedback and reports wherever I can.

I guess it’s something Yet I find my mind wandering sometimes If I am contributing enough.

Lol that’s a pretty fun idea actually- just to see the commits evolve over time. I know there are over 1 million commits but yeah when you think about it all of them pretty much document the state of kernel at that time.

You might as well tell others to just use windows at this point.

Edit: Yeah sorry, my point is that freedom is what makes linux linux. I don’t really think you have ever used linux mint before and I don’t want to sound like a white knight for linux mint but you should atleast be a little less condenscending towards a distro that has been among the top distro for beginners to switch and has fulfilled the role of a full OS without ever needing for many like me to dig too deep into linux configs and stuff. Mint’s development towards debian is only a good thing for many users like me because it preserves the future in case of a ubuntu upstream issue, besides freedom is the spirit of linux.

Damn I see it now.

(Sorry for my bad England)

Guess communism jokes are old now. Sad times.

Yes sadly, I see your point. Big corporates are ruining everything. This is not to say I advocate communism but it’s sad to see the only alternative to communism devolving into a toxic system.

Ah yes, late stage capitalism. Communism was the answer all along. /S

Edit: I love how evryone ignored /S for sarcasm. Just to clarify, yes I know communism is ideal on paper but doesn’t work in real life and yes, capitalism while having its flaws is the only alternate we have.

I think you’ve got it all covered. But for my 2 cents: maybe resources to keep them engaged after these classes, a beginner’s book like “the command line by william schotts” might be an Excellent resource to recommend.

Throwing in a word for foss as someone else is also a nice idea. It would be even better if you could relate it your own life. For example - I use tons of custom scripts for purposes like creating automated git backups and syncing my gdrive using rclone. If you could show your students a glimpse of what you as a enthusiast could accomplish(and what they might customise someday too) it can leave a very lasting positive impression and desire to learn more in their minds.