Hello friends,
Have just registered as soon to be regular Kubuntu user.
Quickly about me: first hit computing back in 1975 on a 11-70 with punch cards, core memory and 80mb hard drives as big as a washing machine programming Fortran. My first 'PC' was an Apple II was 48kb! RAM and a Tape recorder as 'floppy' and an old TV as 'monitor'...
Got my first Mac in '84 and made Apple rich over many years. Back in those early days, still been young and stupid, participating in the 'religious war' between Mac (in favor of) and Windows (against) I successfully managed to ignore the most important rule of choice of platform: productivity. Finally bailed out of the Mac just b4 OS X and moved to Windows. Guess now it's time to move on again.
This definition of productivity is a very personal matter for each user and/or company. In our case it means that Linux has grown up enough to make the difference. Hence some time back I started Linux 'shopping' and tested a number of Distros to find out which way computing life could/should turn.
Most Distros didn't fit, Suse for example was gone after 20 mins. Breezy was interesting but pure Debian caught most of my attention at that time. Additionally, I started to prefer KDE over Gnome. But then I needed that spare PC in production again...
Now I had a spare PC again and resumed my testing: Edgy was love on first sight! I installed it in no time on an old Asus M6800 laptop and got it to work well. Thus I couldn't resist to shrink my Windows partitions on my VX1 and install a dual boot. Didn't get everything to work yet but making fine progress.
Thus it was time to join this fine forum. We intent to bring some 20 PCs to the Kubuntu world soon. Will continue my testing on the laptop for a while trying to match all the Windows soft we currently use. The biggest problem as far as I can see right now will be a solution to get the Bloomberg financial soft working somehow. Once that is solved we will move
Thus even so I know my way around 'puters, I'm still a Linux & Kubuntu newbie and will likely being bombarding you experts out there with a bundle of Qs...
Have just registered as soon to be regular Kubuntu user.
Quickly about me: first hit computing back in 1975 on a 11-70 with punch cards, core memory and 80mb hard drives as big as a washing machine programming Fortran. My first 'PC' was an Apple II was 48kb! RAM and a Tape recorder as 'floppy' and an old TV as 'monitor'...
Got my first Mac in '84 and made Apple rich over many years. Back in those early days, still been young and stupid, participating in the 'religious war' between Mac (in favor of) and Windows (against) I successfully managed to ignore the most important rule of choice of platform: productivity. Finally bailed out of the Mac just b4 OS X and moved to Windows. Guess now it's time to move on again.
This definition of productivity is a very personal matter for each user and/or company. In our case it means that Linux has grown up enough to make the difference. Hence some time back I started Linux 'shopping' and tested a number of Distros to find out which way computing life could/should turn.
Most Distros didn't fit, Suse for example was gone after 20 mins. Breezy was interesting but pure Debian caught most of my attention at that time. Additionally, I started to prefer KDE over Gnome. But then I needed that spare PC in production again...
Now I had a spare PC again and resumed my testing: Edgy was love on first sight! I installed it in no time on an old Asus M6800 laptop and got it to work well. Thus I couldn't resist to shrink my Windows partitions on my VX1 and install a dual boot. Didn't get everything to work yet but making fine progress.
Thus it was time to join this fine forum. We intent to bring some 20 PCs to the Kubuntu world soon. Will continue my testing on the laptop for a while trying to match all the Windows soft we currently use. The biggest problem as far as I can see right now will be a solution to get the Bloomberg financial soft working somehow. Once that is solved we will move
Thus even so I know my way around 'puters, I'm still a Linux & Kubuntu newbie and will likely being bombarding you experts out there with a bundle of Qs...
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