First, I am an old man of 70+ years. It is unlikely that I will be of interest to younger people (and much more prepared from an IT point of view). About myself I can say that I have completed higher education. I got acquainted with the IT field, when they worked with punched cards, and the operating system was either Fortran, die Cobol, or DBase.

Because things were evolving, I had to work with Windows, 95 back then, and because I needed to work with databases, I started with FoxPro (2.0). Then, I chose to learn Visual Basic. But I needed to build my own accounting programs and I approached (successfully??! ) programming in C/C++.

But I wasn’t satisfied with what MSDN offered and that’s why, when I retired, I tried Linux, the first distribution being an Ubuntu 6. I didn’t like the color chosen by the creators of Ubuntu (I still don’t like it today) and I first chose Mandriva and when it stopped, I chose Centos. When you work with databases, you need the stability of the operating system, so Centos (it was 5, then 6, then 7, then 8…). For my evidence programs, there were enough MySQL / MariaDB associated interfaces programmed in wxWidgets (wxWindows, wxGTK, wxMac - I worked with all of them, depending on the operating system on which they had to be installed.) When Centos became Stream, I felt a huge disappointment. I made a hackintosh operating system (macOS Ventura, which goes out of the box). But I missed linux and tried to come to terms with the scary color of Ubuntu and Mint. Honestly, they are some very good distributions and you can find any applications supported in them. However, I miss Centos. When I saw that he had offspring, I tried Alma, then Rocky. I would like to stay here. I expect to have some difficulties, but I’m doing it. I still keep Mint Vanessa as the base system, but I also installed a harddisk with Rocky and I’m trying to familiarize myself. I hope that your kindness will help me when I stumble. I am grateful to you! I am now a modest pensioner, whose pleasure is to play with the computer. And finally, I speak German, and in English I rely a lot on Google. I apologize for my long introduction, but when you are old, you have collected a lot of things. I hope you can say, years and years from now, similar things, like me.