Introducing myself

[trent shipley]

EMACS
Maybe Eclipse.

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:14 PM,  <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
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>> [1] http://vi.vi
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