Testimonials

[ryokimball]

Just a thought, but something that might do good in the way of both communal development and understanding as well as potentially helping newcomers (which I guess I still technically am) would be to make a testimonial-esque thread where we could tell our beginnings or notable stories in working with Linux.

To cut and paste (and slightly edit) from another thread...

I started off with Red Hat (before there was a Fedora). Linux has always been a toy to me. Only for the past year or so have I constantly had a version of Linux installed on a computer, and of that only for the past few months have really gotten into using it. I really like the idea (relatively free, moldable, different flavours...), and even if I never do move strictly to Linux, I see it as a priceless learning tool in figuring out exactly how a computer works (since there seems to be no books anymore that go from "on-off switches" all the way to CPUs in all of their complexity).

I do struggle sometimes (such as learing how to get my full resolution, or even my cursor to appear onscreen), but after I get the system up and running, I have yet to find something I am completely incapable of doing in Linux what can be done in Windows (aside from some games, perhaps, but I like the native games like Konquest much more than the things that come with Vista now anyways). And that alone seems something noteworthy.

[techieMoe]

I seem to remember a thread in the past called "How did you get started with Linux?" or something similar. Perhaps someone will dig it up.

[ryokimball]

oh, found it. You have a good memory (that was almost the exact name, too!). I guess I should look further back before I start jumping ahead of myself --sorry. Maybe this should be linked on the "special polls and threads" thingy?

[techieMoe]

oh, found it. You have a good memory (that was almost the exact name, too!). I guess I should look further back before I start jumping ahead of myself --sorry. Maybe this should be linked on the "special polls and threads" thingy?

No problem. Didn't mean to berate you or anything... just musing.

[ryokimball]

Oh, I'm fine. Just young. ^,^