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It’s easy to forget how we all felt when we first discovered how great Linux is. On this episode we get a reminder from Jason Evangelho who tells us about his experiences as a new Linux convert. Plus a packed news section that includes Microsoft’s latest embrace of the FOSS world.
News
GNOME dumps yet another feature
Microsoft joins OIN and the FSF have a take on it
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Jason Evangelho
Jason Evangelho is a recent Linux convert who writes articles for Forbes.com. We spoke to him about the ups and downs of switching to Linux.
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That was a nice interview. Cool to hear a positive story of people coming to Linux amongst all the worry of ChromeOS and the WSL siphoning away new users. I have said it before but I still appreciate the work you put into finding interviews and other off beat topics. It helps set the show apart. Over the past few weeks, the overlap amongst the different Linux shows has been especially large (the news items for this episode were almsot the same as the list for this week’s LAN for which I don’t fault Joe — the stories he finds interesting for the week aren’t going to change between shows, but the other hosts should step up and find some new items). I skipped a couple of my regular shows (but not LNL) because I had heard the topics enough already (the shows I listen to that overlap are LAN, LNL, Ubuntu Podcast, Bug Report, Bad Voltage, Destination Linux, and Ask Noah).