How did you come to use Linux?

[Glenn Tobey]

I first got started with Ubuntu 7.04 Fiesty Fawn.  I was on digg and I 
see this article about WUBI.  This would allow me to install ubuntu 
without messing with partioning (which at the time was scary to me).  Of 
course I tried it but I didn't actually use it that much until 7.10 due 
to the fact that my wireless dongle (RT2571 based) caused the system to 
completly freeze up.  Now I rarely ever boot in windows and use Ubuntu.

david goolie wrote:
> Started using in college and now I use Ubuntu as my primary pc in my 
> day job. I remote in to my microsuck hahahaha then return to my 
> stability.
>
> I don't know the back end of the OS. I really wish I could grasp it. 
> All I know I use it all the time and I use it to do data recovery for 
> XP all the time.
>
> I would like to know how to use ubuntu live cd to change admin 
> password in microsoft.
> XP\vista
>
> --- On *Mon, 7/6/09, Joshua S. Irving /<hetirv at comcast.net>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Joshua S. Irving <hetirv at comcast.net>
>     Subject: Re: How did you come to use Linux?
>     To: ubuntu-us-va at lists.ubuntu.com
>     Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 10:59 AM
>
>     While in High School, was a big computer geek, and I had heard of
>     Linux,
>     but I didn't pick it up because I didn't think there were many
>     programs
>     for it.  Then, during my senior year the Sys Admin for our School
>     system
>     talked to my computer class about Linux and he gave us each a
>     computer
>     and a Feisty Fawn disk...  After about a week, I was sold.  After
>     about
>     6 months of dual booting, I took the plunge and I now run just
>     Linux.  I
>     have tried other distros, but nothing seems to have that same ease of
>     use as Ubuntu.
>
>     -Het Irv
>
>     Travis Newman wrote:
>     > We tried sharing our conversion stories in a meeting once, but
>     perhaps
>     > fast moving IRC chat was not the best place to share, so lets
>     try now.
>     >
>     > I came to Linux on Slackware 3.5. Bad choice to start with. It was
>     > Winter 1998, and I had just gotten my first computer about 2 months
>     > before. I had barely used computers at all before then, and it
>     was my
>     > first experience with the internet. But even after a short time
>     using
>     > PC's I had already discovered that I was being held back by
>     Windows. I
>     > had always had major curiosity with my PC-- always trying things to
>     > see what I could and couldn't do. I used the restore CD quite a
>     bit.
>     > When I learned that I could use something besides Windows, I
>     jumped on it.
>     >
>     > Unfortunately, Slackware, especially at verion 3.5, was not very
>     good
>     > for new users. I could never get XFree86 to start, so it was all
>     > command line. Configuring an X server from the command line is
>     pretty
>     > rough. So it was just about 2 days before I went back to Windows.
>     >
>     > As the years went by I tried various versions of RedHat and
>     Mandrake,
>     > and finally started using Linux more than just to tinker with
>     Fedora
>     > Core 1, but I was still primarily on Windows. When I first tried
>     > Gentoo in 2004, I started using it more than Windows, and with
>     Ubuntu
>     > I finally went all Linux. I still use Windows here and there, but
>     > Ubuntu is home for me. I still try a few distros here and there,
>     but
>     > none match what I want to do with my PC like Ubuntu.
>     >
>     > Your turn!!
>
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