Fortunately, the pandemic has little negative impact for me. Working from remote, couped up in the house,endless remote meetings. Tell me something new. It's just more of it. And my exprience with work during the pandemic is opposite of most, I got even busier. New clients looking for a cheaper way of doing the same things. Companies looking at open source solutions mainly as a cost reduction option, suddenly okay with solutions that cost less even though it sticks out in their MsWindows environment. I'm not complaining but some days, I'm am at the edge of it.
I've recently moved to the most recent version of Mageia. Well,
forced to was the more likely. A distro upgrade broke and screwed up
the loading of the kernel. I could try to fix it but decided to just
start fresh. The data directories were in a different partition (best
practice ever) and installing fresh would just mean I may had to deal
with the configuration setting differences between the older
KDE/Cinnamon with the most recent one (since it was reading my existing
home folder). Long story short, it worked like a charm (other than my
USB stick coming down with a case of bad blocks).
Then came the whole process of reconsidering the apps I really needed vs the apps I wanted (but almost never use). This is where my thoughts of the needs of the average user return. Does the average user use the apps I use or need? Do they use apps that I don't? This is important to me as a Linux advocate because if Linux doesn't meet the need of the average joe, then the adoption will always fall short.
This was a slow start.
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