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 Welcome Fred! You'll find a lot of helpful people here. Dennis Kibbe Linux Program Lead Mesa Community College Links: ------ [1] http://vi.vi
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