Programming Throwdown, Episode 97, The Holiday episode. Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everyone. So, happy holidays. All the holiday episode. Take it away, Jason. Hey, everyone. So happy holidays. All the different holidays are celebrated around this time of year. As we do every year, we're going to do a

kind of combo giveaway and also answer folks questions. So if you have a question, now is a chance. If you're watching,

listening to this live, you can put a question in that channel. And we will kind of alternate

between kind of answering folks questions and giving away prizes. And so we can actually

give away the first prize. We're going to do, well,

first I'll talk about the prizes. So we're going to do three books to the top three folks. That

worked out really well. So you could pick any of our books of the show for 2019. That is available

an e-book. And we will send it to you if you have Kindle or any of those

services.

We'll also give away three laptop stickers, which is pretty cool, and we'll give away three

T-shirts.

And the way that folks can enter this, anyone who's a patron on our Patreon is automatically

enrolled in this. So I'll be reaching out to everyone who's not who is a patron has a, I've

access to your email so I can send you an email telling you that you've won in case you missed the episode.

And we can just coordinate together to figure out how to get it.

All right, our first winner, I don't want to say, I don't know what we should say.

But basically, our first winner is Don R.

So if your name is Don, there's a good chance that you won a free e-book. Any of the books of the show are good candidates. And so I'll be reaching out to you, Dawn, and we will get you set up with a book. Nice. All right. Congratulations. Yeah, congrats, Don. Do you have a question to kick it off? Yeah, so I have some questions. Also have a topic I want to talk about at some point, but we'll see if we can work it in.

So scrolling back through the history because I'm a terrible person and don't actively read the Discord, I see there's some question, which I think is pretty easy we can answer quickly, is if someone's trying to get started using Linux and want us to pick a Linux

distribution, they're looking for recommendations, but I'll also say, what do you currently

use? All right, so recommendations for Linux distros and what we currently use. Yep. So I'm currently

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