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Happy New year

Happy New Year!

May 2025 be the year of the Linux desktop

MadMax wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2025 12:04 pm Happy New Year!

May 2025 be the year of the Linux desktop

lol... for me.. that milestone was 2019 !!

Happy New Year everyone! Linux and FOSS is the future! Think about it, with inflation the way it is, people can't afford to pay high dollar prices anymore for Microsoft and Apple products so Linux and FOSS are becoming the public's go to for their computing needs. I just saved my friend's folks $70 a year on Microsoft Office by recommending that they use Open Office or Libre Office instead. They elected to use Open Office and they're very satisfied! In my spare time, I install antiX and MX Linux on laptops and desktops gifted to me to distribute them to people who can't afford a computer. It's my way of giving back and plus it helps spread the word about Linux. Most of them have never even heard of Linux. I'm so glad that Linux is so beginner friendly nowadays! It's come a long ways since I first started tinkering with it in the late 90s! Usually I can set everything up on these donated computers to be pretty much fully automated so that the end user doesn't have to do anything except enjoy using them! Now, from time to time, yes I have to be their personal tech, but I don't mind so much. It helps them learn as I show them how to fix simple issues that any newb can do normally. Now the advanced stuff I do myself of course lol. There used to be a joke among the Linux community that once you install Linux on a computer for people, be they family, friends or neighbors, you'll be their personal tech for life lol. However, this isn't necessarily true anymore since modern day distros are so user friendly. Let's proactively make every year the year of the Linux desktop! Let's be advocates of Linux and FOSS! I know everyone on this forum is! Kudos to you all! Remember to be patient with people who are new to Linux. We were once newbs too.

Happy New Year to everyone on earth. I stopped fixing people's pc's simply because if someone is too lazy to learn stuff themselves there's no sense in 'fixing' it for them as they will continuously f it up anyways. Waste of time.

Happy New Year

Better late than never!

I celebrated the New Year with beefing-up my Backup Strategy:

I was a good boy this year, so Santa brought me a new Seagate 5TB Portable Drive.

This is in addition to a 4TB WD Portable Drive, a Toshiba 2TB Portable Drive, a 4TB Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive, a 3TB Internal HDD, a 2TB Internal HDD, a 500GB Internal HDD (for Timeshift Backups), and on the shelf: 8TB Seagate Expansion Drive, and another 4TB Seagate Internal HDD. I'm still pondering on how best to use those last 2 drives.

My Backup Strategy:

Weekly Timeshifts on all 3 MX Installed Distros: Fluxbox, KDE, Xfce
Monthly Snapshots via MX-Snapshot
Backing-Up / Rsyncing via LuckyBackup from main drive (Seagate 4TB) -- Daily-ish
Creating Bootable Snapshots via MX-LUM

-- All Drives mentioned above contain copies of all my data, snapshots, timeshifts, etc.
-- Documents with Personally Identifiable Information is Password-Protected via 7zip (maybe not the best way to go...)
-- Also considering using one of the drives with VeraCrypt, as was highly recommended last year by folks on the Forum.

Current Improvements (New Year's Resolution, already implemented!):

Purchased the 2TB Dropbox storage for Offsite Backup
Purchased the 5TB Seagate Portable Drive for Offsite Backup

Soul-Searching:

So, yeah, I have a lot of drives, but looking back at 2024, I see that I have failed the Warnings/Recommendations of @CharlesV and others on the Forum, that have repeatedly said that a backup is only good if it's working.

So, my New Year's resolution, besides more offsite backups, is to TEST THOSE BACKUPS

Also on the "resolution" list is to consider more seriously encryption of personal data.

Wishing everyone a Safe, Productive, Happy, and Healthy New Year

Oh, and yeah, a heartfelt "THANK YOU" to all the Forum Members, Devs, Admins, Moderators, Packagers-- basically, anyone associated with MX-LINUX

@operadude Happy New year and good job on your system and plan. Set a couple of calendar dates for those backup checks :-)

CharlesV wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 11:18 am @operadude Happy New year and good job on your system and plan. Set a couple of calendar dates for those backup checks :-)

Ah, Yes!, Very Wise to mention the Calendar Dates !!!

Otherwise, it'll end-up just being another of my many Pipe Dreams

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