Where do you guys come from? Or why is this place special?

[aged hippy]

Re: Where do you guys come from? Or why is this place special?

Like many others here, i have no special skills with computers, i started out with a Commodore Plus Four, then (keeping with Commodore) got an Amiga A500, then an A4000 -- which, blasting along at 25Mhz (thanks to the 68000 chip and a graphics co-pro) left everything in its wake. It even had 2Mb of chip (graphics) ram and a 1Gb hard drive.
I thought i'd never fill that, even with Lightwave 3D ray-traced animations. 8)

Working in an internet café i had to be a bit Microsoft-savvy, so got a computer with Win 98 on it, then upgraded to 2000, then XP. My Microsoft experience ended there.

With Linux, i first tried Knoppix, then Red Hat, then Debian, then stumbled across Kubuntu.... and i'm still here .... although i dip my toes into other OS waters occasionally i'll stick with Kubuntu.

To be honest, I think it is the forum that has kept me here...nice people, great knowledge.

mm0

I agree 100%

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Amiga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LightWave_3D

[Detonate]

Re: Where do you guys come from? Or why is this place special?

I work in an environment where, in the main, IT literate means an ability to create a document in MS Word, so I don't know whether in their eyes my limited Linux knowledge makes me a genius, a saddo or a smug ********

Remember the old saying, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King".