Welcome to the list, and I hope to see you some time at one of the 
meeting.  Feel free to ask the list about any problems you might run 
into in your new adventure.

Definitely learn some vi because it will probably be on whatever system 
you play with.  That being said, take a look at emacs as well, and pick 
your favorite.  I personally use JED which uses the emacs keys but is 
much lighter.

Brian

On 07/28/2014 04:37 PM, 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 <http://vi.vi> 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
>
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