Welcome to the Forums - Introduce yourself here

**Dymphy** · January 23rd, 2013

Hi, I'm Dymphy, currently 22 years old and Dutch. At the moment, I'm still a student and next week I'll start the last phase of my college education which is a 1 year internship in the wonderful field of bio-informatics.

One of my teachers (well, teachers perhaps isn't the right word) infected me with the ubuntu virus - and another with the python virus.

I'd love to hear about good books where I can learn more about both Ubuntu as Python (I'm currently busy in Learning Python by Mark Lutz.

**JsnSchumacher** · January 23rd, 2013

Hi, Everyone
I"m new to the forums and the ubuntu community in general even though I have been running ubuntu since the hardy heron release and I have to say I visit these forums often but mainly to help solve problems I have run into in the past with both hardware and sofware issues and I have finally decided to try and give something back to the communty that has helped me so much over the yrs as I am now installing and beginning my testing of raring so far its going good go the live version running as I am posting this from that version now. I'll start the install here in a few mins and let you all know how it goes.
thanks for being there and looking foward to helping out in anyway I can if anything comes to mind let me know I mainly test software and games to see if and how they run on new releases.
Jason (have a nice day)

**overdrank** · January 23rd, 2013

Hi and welcome, threads merged.

**JsnSchumacher** · January 23rd, 2013

Hi,Everyone;
My name is jason and I'm from Oregon.
I have been messing around with linux off and on for yrs but finally went all in about 4 days ago and gotta say i'm loving it with the tutorials that I find all over the place even my wife likes linux and she dosen't do change very well at all just wanted to say hi and have a great day everyone.
jason

**jonedney** · January 23rd, 2013

Welcome Dymphy and Jason!

**treb0r** · January 23rd, 2013

Hi All,

Just downloading Ubuntu 12.10, been away for a few years but decided to test the water again.

Looking forward to getting stuck in!

Rob

**jonedney** · January 23rd, 2013

Hey Rob!

Away for a few years? We'll work harder to suck you in this time! Welcome back!

**treb0r** · January 23rd, 2013

Originally Posted by jonedney

Hey Rob!

Away for a few years? We'll work harder to suck you in this time! Welcome back!

Heh, thanks a lot dude.

Just fired up my thinkpad and blam! Unity is a bit of a shock, but getting to like it.

Firefox 18 running smooth as butter, maybe i will stick around this time

Rob

**Bucky Ball** · January 24th, 2013

Hot butter that is smothering popcorn! Hope you do stick around. I personally dislike Unity and use Xubuntu but you can try the desktop environment by installing xfce4, log out, choose from 'Sessions' pop up and log in. Doesn't drag in the whole Xubuntu palaver, only the DE. The beauty of Linux. Back to Unity the same way. Just thought I'd mention.

Lots to explore and enjoy the learning curve.

**xArcticGx** · January 24th, 2013

I'm xArcticGx (Pronounced: Ark-tick Jee).

I'm a Computer Science Major with an interest in operating systems and audio/video technology. My first taste of Linux was Ubuntu 10.04, and I was quite intrigued by the system. I hope to learn all I can about Linux here.