Hi! Newbie here

[teenytinylinuxgrl]

Hi!

I had no idea what a wonderful, vast, helpful, and friendly community I would become a part of when my friend introduced me to Linux. I'm very new and not very geeky at all, but I have already, in just a couple of days, learned so very much, and what's more, it's fun!! Here's what this little non-geeky newbie girl has learned in her first two days:

The command line is an awesome secret weapon that I never dared to use in Vista! I'm told that in Ubuntu I may never need to use it, but it does so much, so powerfully, and so fast! Even this non-geeky teenage girl can use it in Linux, where in Vista I would have probably started some catstrophic meltdown.

Repositories are awesome! It's so much easier and faster than navigating to a web site and downloading and installing and double-checking.

Linux is less geeky than Windows!! Surprisingly so! Because in Vista there was this never-ending vigil of downloading and installing security updates and patches, running AV and spyware scans, cleaning the registry, defragging - all that to make Vista run like - well, like Linux does without all that work!

I'm so happy to be a part of this whole new world!

Love,
Amy

[rokytnji]

Howdy and Welcome. looks like you are getting the hang of using Linux pretty quick. After discovering Linux I never looked back. Enjoy the forum.

[oz]

Welcome aboard... glad to hear you are having fun running Linux!

[reed9]

Hello and welcome! I completely agree with you on the so-called "geekiness" of linux.

[computerophil]

Welcome here. You'll see the community is great

[questio verum]

Welcome to Linuxforums, Amy.

As I read your post, a smile crept across my face and the blackened pit where my heart used to reside warmed over, ever so slightly. I find it highly entertaining and worthwhile, that in a world where so many users run screaming to the hills at the first sight of a CLI, a li'l ol' non-geeky teenage girl would dispatch her challenges with such aplomb. Très cool!

But don't let it get out to your friends that you did this. Otherwise they'll bring tech problems to your doorstep like flowers to an idol.

Welcome to the adventure... Enjoy it!


qv

[teenytinylinuxgrl]

But don't let it get out to your friends that you did this. Otherwise they'll bring tech problems to your doorstep like flowers to an idol.

qv

LOL, I'll send them to the boy who introduced me to Linux... oh, on second thought, I think I'd rather keep him to myself. He's too cute to share with anyone else!

Did you read my article by the way? I can't believe I'm already published... but the point was about getting girls into Linux. I hope you like it! I haven't made enough posts here to post a URL but it's here on this site, entitled "Non-Geeky Girls Can Love Linux Too!"

Amy

[Hal343]

Welcome. You have started to enjoy the freedom of using your computer the way you want to, instead of the way someone else thinks you should.
EDIT: A very good article. It brings up points I usually don't consider.

[MikeTbob]

Welcome to the Forums, please do enjoy yourself here. Link to her article here.
Non-Geeky Girls Love Linux Too! Linux article

[waterhead]

I haven't made enough posts here to post a URL but it's here on this site, entitled "Non-Geeky Girls Can Love Linux Too!"

Hello, and welcome to Linux Forums. We don't seem to have a lot of young cute girls in these forums, so forgive us if we fawn over you a bit.

I also wanted to let you know that posts in the coffee lounge don't count in your post count. You need 15 posts before you can post links. Start a help thread in the Ubuntu section for anything that you want to know. You'll have 15 posts before you know it.