welcome to the group.

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Fred Fifield <ffifield@gmail.com> 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 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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