[ubuntu-us-mn] General Introduction

[glenn opdycke-hansen]

Sorry to hear about your cat.  I deal with a cat with health issues;
it is a challenge with its rewards.

For Linux/Ubuntu, you might consider getting an additional hard drive
for the pc or dual booting it.  I got a new hard drive for a laptop
that had vista (!) installed.  The vista/hard drive was removed and a
new hard drive was installed with ubuntu and no windows.  If i need to
run windows again, the hard drives need to be switched.

Ubuntu is one option.  There are other options of linux distributions
that may be more suited to the person who is moving off windows to
linux (perhaps mint).
--glenn


On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:38, Scott Blackwell <amjur2d at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> My name is Scott - hailing from Oakdale, Minnesota (a suburb east of Saint
> Paul).
>
> I am an unemployed legal professional squeaking-by as a freelance, creative
> writer and aspiring novelist (truly, necessity is the mother of invention!).
> I am 46 and have found myself to be an amateur PC enthusiast since the early
> 1980's (my first PC's were a Timex Sinclair 1016 and Apple IIe). Make no
> mistake, however, I am by no means a geek; I fumble around in the dark until
> familiarity develops. I haven't done any programming since high-school
> (BASIC) and even then I was mediocre at best.
>
> Last week I had to put my cat to sleep - seizures due to terminal cancer.
> Having survived that traumatic life-changing event, I decided to keep the
> ball rolling by finally taking a leap of faith to permanently emancipate
> myself from the evil clutches of Microsoft. I downloaded, burned and
> installed Ubuntu 11.10 on top of my XP - crushing the life out of all that
> was familiar and finding myself again fumbling around in the dark (only
> there exists herein some semblance of illumination).
>
> In a nutshell, this is basically me and where I'm at in the scheme of
> things.
>
> Regards,
>
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