<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">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@comcast.net> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Joshua S. Irving <hetirv@comcast.net> Subject: Re: How did you come to use Linux? To: ubuntu-us-va@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 10:59 AM <div class="plainMail">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!! -- Ubuntu-us-va mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:Ubuntu-us-va@lists.ubuntu.com" href="/mc/compose?to=Ubuntu-us-va@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-va@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-va" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-va</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>