Well, I'm visiting this forum again after nearly a year. Had a great dialogue with simon.a.ruiz about "command line/terminal vs GUI" in the thread "Hello from Logansport." Immediately after, my work load as a carpenter dumped on me and forum visits became infrequent for me. Never even saw simon's final response in that thread! But during the past several months my Ubuntu knowledge accelerated dramatically. --I started building Ubuntu based systems for sale, as well as well as partitioning Vista and XP systems that people were pissed off with. I am now getting people with brand new Vista machines hiring me to help them make the switch to Ubuntu! I started using Remastersys to create my own Ubuntu distro with the necessary codecs, libraries and software which I like and recommend. I tend to use a lot of non-free stuff, because that is what people know coming from *******. If they can use MP3's, DVDs, and familiar software (like Skype and Picasa) right off the bat, then they feel as though they are in familiar terrain. The legal issues of these things are all hotly debated, so I perform the installation as an end-user agent (they still have to click the program's Terms/Conditions "I agree" box), and I feel as though I am in safe place legally that way (MPEG-LA isn't likely to pursue me for a licensing fee).
So, although I'm a part of the ebb and flow mentioned in a recent thread, I thought I'd share that us Ubuntu users are here for the long-haul, and the road from newbie to avid, educated user, is very short one!
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Originally Posted by rmccutchan
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