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[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Do you know any Linux users that aren't IT professionals? If I know any, it's because they're the children of IT professionals

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using GNU+Linux since 9th grade because that's when I got a computer. My parents have absolutely nothing to do with computers. What got me there was simple lack of understanding. I barely knew what OS was, but I needed to get one. And soon after, I misunderstood Windows as another distribution, so I went with Linux Mint.

I just had good luck.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Since daycare. My dad had to do with computers.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm an actuarie and a Linux user at home. At work I'm forced to use excel but I do everything I can on python.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I ran across this in another thread yesterday. Sounds like you might think it's as cool as I do!

[–] filister@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think Microsoft recently introduced Python support in Excel, so maybe you can combine both.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 year ago

It's tied up with their azure cloud service and I kinda combine both already with pandas.read_excel() and DataFrame.to_excel().

[–] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

As far as I know, the only thing that the new python integration helps with is that users don't have to install Python or have to know how to use pip to install packages like pandas, because Python doesn't run locally. It is neat how you can visualize data and show it inline with the Excel document though. My industry is very regulated, so we won't be able to use it since the data you pass to Python goes to Azure for processing

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Myself. I'm just a hobbyist.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Teeeechnically I'm hobbyist too now.

[–] bighatchester@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Me ! I'm a more recent Ubuntu user . But used it alittle in highschool over 10 years ago . Both my parents can't even use a computer . But I had a really good tech teacher who handed out Ubuntu CDs to who ever wanted one and helped me learn to program .

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been running Linux in one way or another since ~2007, a good 6 years before even considering working in software development. So I guess it was the other way around for me haha. Parents couldn't be further from the field.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

A quantum physics professor, also I'm only a hobbyist.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Pilot turned woodworker here. Been using Linux for 10 years. Granted, my father was an IT guy...who's career had nothing to do with Linux, he's a Windows Server/AS400 guy.

[–] 257m@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I am not an IT professional and neither is my dad. I discovered linux through virtual machines on the cloud that you can connect through vnc and fell in love with the commandline.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I know 2 of them. Both are my grandparents.