guess what i wanna be when i grow up...

[MoXplorer]

In the last 2 months I have not cut my hair, rarely seen my friends, lost pickup skills and developed an addiction. Since I started using Linux my life has not been the same.

I have been on a holiday, during which i decided not to go traveling but invest in a quality laptop and explore this so called Linux OS that I crashed my previous laptop with, my new one too on the second day of having it(formatted XP partition, I installed Ubuntu without reading the manual.

You see I come from a Scuba diving domain, spend my time underwater swimming with sharks dolphins and exploring stuff. I was using computers for the internet to keep up with friends and a few MS apps for work and thats it. I didn't even know that Apple had a different OS than MS, does it?
I just don't care.

Things have changed, I can't get enough of Linux, I have been on Kubuntu Edgy and have gotten familiar with a few other distros by theory. I have had many problems that I managed to solve with the help of the amazing Linux community. I have learned that when I get no replies on my posts it just means that i have more reading to do. I have learned new terminology and managed to have better looking desktop than anyone I know, even the only 2 Linux users that l know here. Major thanks to Beryl!!

Now I know I want to go further, so much further... I am still trying to figure out the difference between a developer and a programmer, but I know I want to be one of the 2 or maybe both or maybe something else i haven't discovered yet, but thats it, Linux for life.

I am however getting confused by the amount of reading material that i have gathered, which ones have priority? Forums, magz, Howtos, rutebook, TLDP, cookbook, RedHat...

I am sure there is someone out there that can relate..

[{-n()rx-}]

Brilliant. Iv been into Linux for the past *thinks* 1 - 1 1/2 yrs. Linux rocks.
I have recently (past 3 months) been self-teaching myself C++ (programming language) and have even writen a few cool mini Arch Linux scripts and programs.
Suggestions for future movements:
1) Move to a more 'advanced' or challenging Distro, like Debian, or even further into Gentoo or Arch, where command line is a must, and 'hacking'/changing stuff will be allot more fun.
2) Learn some languages, cool ones are C++ and Perl, both used loads for Linux scripting and developing. I recommend starting with C++ as it has the capacity to be fairly advanced, and if you know it well, almost anything else will be a piece of cake. Try www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ from beginning to end

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

not meaning to be an ass, but if you want to learn C++ then i'd seriously recommend you get The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup (the guy who made it). why? the best way to learn is from the source. check out www.cprogramming.com it's got a few books on there too.