Hello

[Daniel_B]

I hate intros, but I can't see a better way to get introduced....

My name is Dan and I am currently attending college to get a Bachelors in Computer Engineering. I work as a .net developer, but I have a few years experience in C/++ and decided getting acquainted with Linux would be a good way to further my knowledge of low level development (and get out of the small Windows box I've been in). I'm currently running a stock install of Ubuntu and loving it. I hope to start tweaking things shortly, but learning the basics is the priority now.

This forums looks nice and I hope I will learn a lot here.

[Cabhan]

Howdy and welcome to the forum! I'm glad that you're enjoying your first experiences with Ubuntu, and I hope that you'll come to love tinkering and blowing things up (and then recovering from them ).

And I like to think that these are good forums, so hopefully you will too. Hope to see you around.

[teenytinylinuxgrl]

Hi!

It should be fun for you, learning Linux. I'm even enjoying it and I'm (well, up 'til now anyway) a totally non-geeky girl! Linux has been very liberating for me. My computer runs much faster since I switched (a week ago!), no licenses expire, no big regimen of updating, scanning, cleaning, defragging, etc to make Vista run like - well, like Ubuntu runs without all that work!

Linux has no registry; thus no registry errors and no registry cleaning. Mine has antivirus software, but that's just to help prevent my computer from unknowingly passing along any malware (which doesn't affect my computer) to my friends on Windows. I'm not scared to death of the command line in Ubuntu like I was in Vista. It's not just that Linux is free of cost, it's free of hassle, free of fear, and frees up a lot of time as well, so I can run my applications instead of running the operating system.

Ubuntu has hyooooge, vast, ginormous repositories from which to safely install just about any software you need, and it's effortless with the Synaptic package manager. Synaptic is one of the most amazing things of all to me! It's sooooo much easier than hunting for a web site, downloading what you hope is the right version of the right software, then scanning it, then unzipping it, then executing it with bated breath because experience has taught you to expect a crash or something.

The most wonderfulest thing of all: If I totally mess up, re-installation is a snap! I feel safe (which is very important to a teenage girl, lol), secure, and free. I've even started to tinker a little - fearlessly I might add, which I would never have dared do in Vista!

Enjoy!!
Amy

[Freston]

Welcome to the forums!

I hope you have fun learning your new computing environment. Sometimes it seems though that the less people know about computers the less difficulty they have switching. Maybe you've read it already, but [Linux != Windows] is a good place to start.

Cheers!

[oz]

Welcome aboard... glad you've decided to try your hand at Linux!

[Daniel_B]

Thanks for the welcomes everyone.

Welcome to the forums!

I hope you have fun learning your new computing environment. Sometimes it seems though that the less people know about computers the less difficulty they have switching. Maybe you've read it already, but -I can't even quote URLs yet- is a good place to start.

Cheers!

I read that guide a while ago, it was probably the single most useful piece of material out there for beginners. It gives a good point that difficulties have and will have are differences, not faults.

[computerophil]

Welcome here, as you aren't at all computer allergic you will easily learn to handle Linux.
Hope you will also feel well in this forum.