Welcome to the Forums - Introduce yourself here

[captjack]

New here and to Ubuntu. I have no computer experience. My son gave me his laptop and he installed Lubuntu on it. I am getting use to the laptop after years on a desktop(which he also installed Lubuntu on) I have much to learn and it is frustrating as I do not know computer language. I have lots of questions and my son has gone back home so I am basically on my own.

I hope that I will be able to get help and hopefully it will be in very simple terms.

I am married 30 years, 4 children and one grandchild. Live in NY- state of high taxes, and no large sodas. LOL

I love Johnny Depp, history, hockey and crafts.

[GreenForce82]

Hello All! I am a new guy here, I have installed about 10 distro's on my pc's in an effort to practice the process and find files on bad copies of Widows. So I guess that makes me not quite a noob. I am hoping to learn a lot here. My main goal is to create a server network in my basement to use as my shared storage for my music and pictures. that way I can access it from anywhere and share them with my friends and family.

I look forward to making some good friends here.

Peace!

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Welcome to all the newcomers... be sure to check out the Code of Conduct and enjoy the forum


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[dannyboy79]

Sup guys, it's Ubu the Tech Guru here. I am a 33 year old male with a girlfriend and her 2 kids. I am a CAD Designer by day and a tech nerd/ FPS Xbox 360 gamer by night.
I have been using Ubuntu since Breezy Badger and still loving it. I use it as my main workstation OS as well as a Media/MythTV/File Server. I have learned so much from using linux over the last 6+ years it's great. I an enjoy helping others where I can on the forums here and on the official Ubuntu IRC channel. I have my own blog which is in my signature if you care to check it out as a YouTube channel where I have a Shank 2 Let's Play, COD Gameplay Commentaries, and various type Vlogs, again can be found in my signature.
I look forward to many more years with Ubuntu as my OS.

[krugerchad]

Hi All !!
I am newbie here plz be nice...

[chron3]

Hi all! I just switched from OS X to Ubuntu. My MacMini was becoming very slow and I wanted to switch to a notebook, so I decided to sell my Mac and buy a ThinkPad. A MacBook would have been an alternative, but I'm not willing to pay those prices. Also, I always wanted to see if Linux is something for daily usage. Since I don't play games on my computer, I'm quite happy after two days. Everything seems to be running very well on my ThinkPad.

[Laurent B]

Hello Ubuntu community.

I am French and work in an international IT company as development manager.
I am new in there, but using Linux since good ol' Slackware times (1994 actually). Last 10 years I went through Red Hat, Mandrake, Mandriva, then discovered Debian...

At that moment I completely removed Windows from all my PCs. Dual boot time was over! After few years using stable, testing, unstable flavours, I finally moved to Ubuntu (since 9.10 AFAIR). Now all my machines run Ubuntu. I have a Dell Poweredge server running 12.04 LTS, 3 Lenovo laptops (from different generations) running 12.10, one Zotac as HTPC running 12.04 with XBMC on top, 2 RaspberryPIs (humm... those one are actually running Raspbian) and I am eagerly waiting to switch my smartphone to Ubuntu Phone OS

Among all those years I made numerous people switch to Linux and recently more specifically to Ubuntu. I have always pushed at work for Open Source solutions and is seen by my co-workers as the Linux guy.

I really don't know why I never registered to Ubuntu Forums as I found many solutions to some of my problems here along all those years. Shame on me!

[BlinkinCat]

Hi and a big welcome on behalf of the members to the forums Laurent B

Among all those years I made numerous people switch to Linux and recently more specifically to Ubuntu. I have always pushed at work for Open Source solutions and is seen by my co-workers as the Linux guy.

I really don't know why I never registered to Ubuntu Forums as I found many solutions to some of my problems here along all those years. Shame on me!

You will have much to say then I trust -

If you haven't seen it already, this link may be of assistance -
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1006656

[BlinkinCat]

Sup guys, it's Ubu the Tech Guru here. I am a 33 year old male with a girlfriend and her 2 kids. I am a CAD Designer by day and a tech nerd/ FPS Xbox 360 gamer by night.
I have been using Ubuntu since Breezy Badger and still loving it. I use it as my main workstation OS as well as a Media/MythTV/File Server. I have learned so much from using linux over the last 6+ years it's great. I an enjoy helping others where I can on the forums here and on the official Ubuntu IRC channel. I have my own blog which is in my signature if you care to check it out as a YouTube channel where I have a Shank 2 Let's Play, COD Gameplay Commentaries, and various type Vlogs, again can be found in my signature.
I look forward to many more years with Ubuntu as my OS.

A very big welcome on behalf of the members to you dannyboy79 -

Hi All !!
I am newbie here plz be nice...

Hi krugerchad - A very big welcome to you - I trust you will find the members here very helpful and friendly - don't be afraid to ask any questions -

Hi all! I just switched from OS X to Ubuntu. My MacMini was becoming very slow and I wanted to switch to a notebook, so I decided to sell my Mac and buy a ThinkPad. A MacBook would have been an alternative, but I'm not willing to pay those prices. Also, I always wanted to see if Linux is something for daily usage. Since I don't play games on my computer, I'm quite happy after two days. Everything seems to be running very well on my ThinkPad.

A very big welcome to you chron3 - I am glad you are enjoying your experience on your ThinkPad -

[mattyasaurus]

Hi all! Newbie here.. Been playing around with Ubuntu for the last few months so thought i would give the forum a try too .