Were it not for these forums......

[steveneddy]

..we would not have as many Ubuntu users as we have today.

I can say that even I would not have kept using Ubuntu if it weren't for these forums.

I was reading a thread today and there was aysiu, giving great advice as usual.

If it weren't for aysiu and others like him, I wouldn't have been so impressed by Ubuntu and what it may have had to offer.

Ubuntu has really come a long way since my first experience with it around 4.10, and I expect that Hardy to be a hardy version of Ubuntu (pun intended).

I wanted to thank all of the posters and thread starters that helped me in the past and continue to help others now.

Remember Beryl in the early days with Quinn Storm and his/her crew? Trying to get that crap working kept me up late at night, but when it worked, it was eye candy deluxe!

Now Compiz-Fusion gets new Ubuntu converts daily!

These forums are great and I just wanted to say that. I'm going to cry now. I'm so happy!

Goodness, now I sound like Rav Tux......

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What ever happened to Quinn?

[Sporkman]

How much did they pay you? :)

[FuturePilot]

This forum is great! :guitar:

[days_of_ruin]

Yah these forums are very friendly and not crude

[fatality_uk]

I'd like to 2nd steveneddy comments. I almost NEVER join forums. I can count on the fingers of two fingers the number of forums I am now signed up to. This isn't a Linux forum thing, it's the whole lot of them.

I looked at my profile:
Total Posts: 133 (1.96 posts per day)
Total Thanks: 7
Thanked 11 Times in 9 Posts

2 posts a day says a LOT for me. I am involved and active in a community that has a great deal going for it and a lot of very knowledgeable people here.

At work, I usually have the forums open in the background. I find out so much information and new facts and tips just trawling around here.

I also thought about this the other day. Looking through some posts, it seems that there isn't a problem too obscure that can't and hasn't been solved here.

Want to thank you all for the work that goes into making Ubuntu and the forums a stronghold of sanity in the web!!!

[steveneddy]

How much did they pay you? :)

Nothing - gotta a new laptop from Canonical.

Not really - just wanted to post something that mirrored my thought at the moment.

Oh no - I am turning into Rav...

[ExpatPaul]

we would not have as many Ubuntu users as we have today.

I wanted to thank all of the posters and thread starters that helped me in the past and continue to help others now.


I'll second that. When I was looking into Ubuntu, the first thing I did was download the Live CD. The second thing I did was poke around these forums and the helpfulness and friendliness on display quickly convinced me that - if I did run into any problems - help wasn't going to be very far away.

[steveneddy]

I'll second that. When I was looking into Ubuntu, the first thing I did was download the Live CD. The second thing I did was poke around these forums and the helpfulness and friendliness on display quickly convinced me that - if I did run into any problems - help wasn't going to be very far away.

I think that most savvy users that are successful with Ubuntu are regular UF lurkers if not posters and thread starters.

I can't think of any other forum that has this kind of support for beginner through advanced users.

[BobCFC]

I agree. The devs should put a default bookmark to here on the main Firefox bookmarks toobar like PCLOS.. next to the BBC headlines etc.

Also big respect for those on the #ubuntu irc channel on freenode such as nickruud and Pelo

[hhhhhx]

the ubuntu community is pretty much the main reason i use ubuntu in the first place :)

[RAV TUX]

These forums are great and I just wanted to say that. I'm going to cry now. I'm so happy!

Goodness, now I sound like Rav Tux......




You have evolved well my grasshopper. ;)



What ever happened to Quinn?

Last I heard that Quinn Storm was working on a big project, and that as an active developer for gOS and Enlightenment that you may see some interesting developments in Enlightenment in the future.

...but I can NOT substantiate this.

I hope you like me new avatar.;)

RAV

[steveneddy]

You have evolved well my grasshopper. ;)



Last I heard that Quinn Storm was working on a big project, and that as an active developer for gOS and Enlightenment that you may see some interesting developments in Enlightenment in the future.

...but I can NOT substantiate this.

I hope you like me new avatar.;)

RAV

Cool new avatar, Rav!

Good to hear that Quinn Storm is getting some dev work. He was flipping burgers the last I heard, but that was in the Beryl days.

I suppose that this paid work for him? Or maybe not....

[notwen]

These forums and community have certainly made my choice of general Linux distro relatively easy, well Ubuntu did that pretty well alone, but it's comforting knowing there's an abundance of user knowledge/experience a couple of keystrokes away. =]

[moffatt666]

I think I'd go as far as saying the ubuntu community is the best. There is very little in the way of elitism and the users are generally friendly :)

[RAV TUX]

Cool new avatar, Rav!



Thanks! ;)

[steveneddy]

I thought we could get some more thoughts on this on this fine weekend.

[dizee]

The forums are fantastic, could well have given up on Ubuntu without them. Not only is there a great newb-friendly atmosphere (no RTFM!-ers), but it seems that no matter what problem you have someone else here has had it as well and found a fix.

[steveneddy]

The forums are fantastic, could well have given up on Ubuntu without them. Not only is there a great newb-friendly atmosphere (no RTFM!-ers), but it seems that no matter what problem you have someone else here has had it as well and found a fix.

I think many of us would have given up were it not for these forums.

I always seem to find an answer here.

Sometimes I get an answer that I may not agree with at the time.

(look at my title)

[SomeGuyDude]

Without UF I'd never have kept Ubuntu. I doubt I'd have found a way to work through every problem I had.