Span a few years to one year before I started college. I needed to buy a PC to submit my assignments. So during the summer of 2008, I worked so hard cleaning hotels with my mother. I now had enough money to buy my first computer a Packard Bell iMedia x2414 with an enormous amount of Ram totalling 2GB and an intel Celeron with duo cores. The best part was it was running everyone's favourite Windows version Windows Vista.

It was so hard to get any work done. Then one fatal evening windows broke the DHCP no longer worked I had no clue how to fix it and no other device to search how to fix it. I was then forced to use the library to find a solution get a windows disc this seemed almost impossible. I started to ask what is Windows and is there an alternative. The answer was Yes! Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).

I encountered problems I was unable to download the ISO. So I asked canonical for a disc and enclosed a cheque to cover the shipping. From that day I have used Linux ever since. The distros I commonly use now are Kubuntu 20.10, Manjaro and Arch Linux. I use KDE as my GUI “you know what they say old habits die hard.”

Yes, I occasionally use Windows. After I built my next PC, I gotWindows 7 and came across XNA Game Studio 3.0. The idea of making games for Xbox seemed great. It gave me a moment of nostalgia with my mom. Which lead me to learn C# fromMicrosoft Academy and eventually built an RPG game from the toolkit they provided.

I progressed onto making an Ubuntu Linux server out of interest as well as a samba server. All in my free time. During my final year of studies, I was responsible for creating experiments with python and using libraries such as pandas, NumPy and matplotlib to plot and analysis data. Now I found my calling with web development and love every moment I get using JavaScript and React.js