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Originally Posted by rkelsen
I've noticed that too. I have several friends whom often rib me about being a geek, just because I run Slackware.
The odd thing is, that they're the ones working in IT. I work in a completely unrelated field.
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People called me a "geek" long before I even started with Linux because I knew the commandline and acronyms like RAM and CPU and I knew how to install a CD-ROM drive. I didn't start getting "ribbed" until I switched to Linux. They "upgraded" me from geek to genius.
I had been using Linux for 4 years before I started working in the school's computer lab where I am now. My most knowledgable coworker here, who has been in this lab for several years already and has another job as a network engineer for another school, has heard of Linux but never seen it. The others haven't got a clue what Linux is.
I guess to some people it doesn't matter what distro you use. Just being different makes you a "geek" in their eyes. I have met a couple of Ubuntu users recently. They only mention it because they see one of my Slackware t-shirts. They don't call me a geek in so many words, but they hint that Slackware isn't "point-and-click" enough for them.