Hello from the west

[fslinux]

Hi all,

the first thing i was instructed to do by this site was go and post a hello :)

So hello, im originally from the UK now living over in Southern California and working as a Technical Specialist in Downtown LA, Been meaning to start using Linux for a long long while and now this week i took the Plunge with Ubuntu and i am absolutely loving it.. XP is so damn stale now its nice to have something refreshing to get stuck into.. Oh and i also do 3d art and animation in my spare time so am looking to Linux to see what it has to offer on that front...

I love this Linux thing!!! :razz:

Graham

[KiwiNZ]

Greetings and welcome aboard

[welsh_spud]

Hi and welcome to the forum, and the Ubuntu distro. What part of the UK were you from?

[earobinson]

East side (canada) is where its at..... I guess that makes me even more west side? If my geography is any good lol

EDIT: "What part of the UK were you from" i read "were" as "are"

[fslinux]

East Anglia was were i was born and raised, left there 2 years ago or i was never ever going to ;)

G.

[Sanne]

.. Oh and i also do 3d art and animation in my spare time so am looking to Linux to see what it has to offer on that front...

If you haven't done so already, definitely take a look at Blender (http://www.blender.org/), a free 3D modelling and animation tool. The user interface needs a little (or a lot) getting used to, but once you get familiar with it, it makes a lot of sense.

Sanne

[teaker1s]

wish I wasn't in the uk I hate the weather!!!!!

[xmastree]

Oh and i also do 3d art and animation in my spare time so am looking to Linux to see what it has to offer on that front...There's also povray (www.povray.org) but the user interface is non existant unless you download a third party one. Unfortunately the Windows version is much nicer.

Greetings from another ex-pat. I'm originally from Burnley, Lancashire.

[fslinux]

There's also povray (www.povray.org) but the user interface is non existant unless you download a third party one. Unfortunately the Windows version is much nicer.

Greetings from another ex-pat. I'm originally from Burnley, Lancashire.

ha! all these ex pats :) congrats.. i now know more people outside the UK than i did when i lived there.. hehe well almost.. thanks for the heads up on the 3d apps guys.. im in the middle of installing the linux version of Maya right now and it aint as easy as the windows version :)

anyway.. better get back to it

G>

PS we got our first batch of rain today here in LA for months and months :P

[xmastree]

Lots of things which run with both windows and linux 'aint as easy as the Windows version'... :-(

I suspect this is because they concentrate the development on the more popular platform (understandable) and then make the linux version just to stop us moaning about the lack thereof...

On the other hand, less can mean more. Compare an automatic car with a manual. Sure, the auto is easier but a real driver will get more out of the manual version.

[DimaIL]

Hello and Welcome to the forum.
WOW, you have just installed and you so satisfied? I installed and had many problems, and now i hope to install again.

Dima