EMACS Maybe Eclipse. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 5:14 PM, 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: >> ------ >> [1] http://vi.vi >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss