hardly matters how many NITwits are local when most of your contacts while *using* linux occur online. Even if many or most are doing the Mr Bill OS(TM) when not on the NIT. Or perhaps they are expecting a Mr Bill show on the NIT and are disappointed (see various threads). But most are happy geeks or free thinkers that may or may not be living in their parent's basement. There are some interesting folks around these parts (this being planet Earth). Big neighbourhood actually.

I'm on the older side of geekdom. Put it this way, my first real computer was sub 1MHz and had 3K worth of RAM. In fact I still have my very first colour monitor. It happens to have a composite input and to this day puts out a quality picture. I don't own a t.v. and still use the 30+ year old monitor as my video screen. hey, works for me and that initial investment has paid off big now. I'm in IT but have very few toys other than the N8.