I started with GNUWinII, then installed Mandrake (Mandriva), quickly switched
to Damm Small Linux, which I truly loved even though I had a modern machine
with Slackware on it, and then missed all the infighting and hullabaloo
because I was busy with my newborn. I'd made some sort of a pact with myself
that I'd give up computers/the internet if I could just bring this little guy
safely earthside at my advanced age, but that translated into Ubuntu on the
cheapest machine I could possibly run it on.
Babies grow up as I've learned to my sorrow and we've both been using
Trisquel since '12. My older kid bought me a System76 Wildebeest for
Christmas that year. Realistically, it's not a good time in my life to use
Parabola or even Debian, although I play with my VMs because I find them more
entertaining than Minecraft or the Honey Boo Boo show.
I've been pleasantly surprised at how user friendly Trisquel is and would put
it on my 80 year old mother's machine if she lived closer. There have been
enough interesting incidents, like needing to install my printer through CUPS
on Belenos instead of Gnome, that I still feel like I'm learning enough to
keep my mind active. I've also seen software in the Debian reps that is not
in Trisquel and enough posts on the forum about why it is not on Trisquel
that I'm comfortable trusting Quidam to do the research I could do myself if
I wasn't too busy blowing soap bubbles and playing with fingerpaints.
I hope we both get to grow up with Trisquel and that someday it's as
comfortable to me as DSL used to be back in the day.
It's nice to see the forums so active in the last few days and to have the
chance to get to know some of you better. My username was not intentional and
I don't usually "out" myself as a middle aged female on tech forums, but this
seems like as good a time as any to do so.
