Introducing myself

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Hi Fred!  Welcome!!

On 2014-07-28 16:37, Fred Fifield wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> My name is Fred and I've been stalking this mailing list for about
> three weeks now and I thought it was time to come to the surface. 
> 
> I'm a new Linux user. I installed Mint 17 Cinnamon back in June and
> I've been loving it. I started with Ubuntu but there was too much
> weirdness in Unity for my tastes. It was suggested on the Ars Technica
> boards (I'm a moderator over there) that coming from Windows that I
> might find the transition easier with Mint and they were right.
> Currently I'm dual-booting Mint with Windows 8.1 but I spend most of
> my time in Mint unless I'm playing a game.
> 
> I've flirted with Linux in the past but always seemed to get
> frustrated with all the hurdles I seemed to run into with getting it
> all configured. One of the reasons I love Mint so much is that it
> figured out my hardware configuration on its own (including my
> printer!), not to mention making it easy to install the nvidia drivers
> I needed. Not having to do any basic configuration made it easy for me
> to explore the things I wanted to check out on my own.
> 
> In reading up on my new OS one of the things that kept coming up was
> to check out the local user groups. I found PLUG with a Google search
> and signed up for the mailing lists that seemed pertinent. I hope to
> make it to one of your meetings sometime but I work nights so it may
> be a while before I'm able to do that. In the meantime I'm enjoying
> reading the emails produced by the lists. I read them all even though
> most of the stuff is way over my head but it's a good learning
> experience and sometimes there's conversations I actually do
> understand!
> 
> I decided on some goals for my new Linux journey. In the near term I
> want to learn the command line and vi.vi [1] seems an odd text editor
> to me but I'm enjoying the challenge of learning it. The command line
> is awesomely powerful and I'm having fun with it too. I got a couple
> of books from Amazon that were highly rated to help me out. The first
> is _The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction _by William E.
> Shotts and the second is _Learning vi and the Vim Editors _by Arnold
> Robbins, Elbert Hannah, and Linda Lamb. Once I get through these I
> want to install a more complicated distro (to me) like Arch or Gentoo.
> The ultimate goal is to do Linux from Scratch but there's a lot of
> learning for me before I get to that.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for being here and sharing your knowledge about all the
> 'nixes. 
> 
> Fred Fifield
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://vi.vi
> 
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