Hello my fellow Linux users from a Gen X Linux Nerd

I don’t trust or believe the people that label these areas or draw the year lines in the sand. Is it gov? Academia? Some guy in Kenosha? Someone else? I’d been on this planet a while and I have no idea who makes these seemingly arbitraty BS demarcations we all adhere to.
In other words 64 may as well be X. I am X by a couple yrs. I feel the true ‘Boomers’ should have been done in '58/'59. That’s about 15 years after WW2 and part of that Boom.

I really feel like 60’ babies were different. Not Boomers, not X. Maybe that decade of babies were their own small overlooked generation. jfk, civil rights, vietnam was an insane vaccuum to come out of, that is neither Boomer or X to me.

That said I’m pretty much X. The era I went to high school in was supposed to be Fast Times at Ridgmont high but in reality, growing up in the West, every single second was Dazed and Confused: jocks beating you up with Wood Shop paddles, parties in the desert, wide open spaces, open containers, joints, bowliing balls thrown at mailboxes, rock and roll and rock and roll, chicks, cars, mayhem, no cell phones, not a lot of self-absorbed people and no phones. It was the best.

But I digress.

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Born in 52. . . . yikes. . . . I’m a boomer. . . . I think boomers started in the year 1945 . . . not sure. . . I could be wrong . . . the end of WWII.

Rich :wink:

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you were born under a good sign :slight_smile: https://playback.fm/charts/top-100-songs/1952

look at the insane duplicate top 100 song charting the same: stafford/hank and Pearl/Louis. This seems statistically impossible. Cheers :beers:

EDIT: I just wanted to add, to no one, that Kay Starr was a hell of a jazz/big band/blues/pop singer

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Touché :grin:

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Welcome, @Clintre, have fun and enjoy the ride.

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This thread gave me a new wave of age depression. Well, that kinda fits, thank you and welcome!

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@Clintre: Welcome to the forum! :purple_heart:

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Ah the early-to-mid-90’s, the golden years… Linux was such a wild trail back then! Still can’t quite believe it was that many years ago… Good to have you with us, enjoy the journey!

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Belated but warm welcome (can’t believe it’s May already…), hope you enjoy EnOS & stick around the forum to add yet another great community member here :slight_smile:

I’ve been using & loving EnOS for approx 2 years now although I spent most of that just reading the forum not contributing until recently. I keep finding more & more reasons why it’s the best OS I’ve ever used, part of that is the excellent community here.

Enjoy the ride, & c u round.

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Hello there. I share of lot of those same tastes, born in 71 and I’ve been messing with OSes since the 80s.

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Welcome fellow GenX r :smile:

Ah yes the 90’s. Redhat 2, Slackware and OS/2 was in my play ground. Bet you get a kick out of watching Mr Robot.

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