[colug-432] Greetings

[Don]

Rick,

Thanks for the kind welcome greeting and suggestion.  Have done more
command line stuff since joining Manjaro, but they are well documented and
user friendly so that is helpful.  They are an off-shoot of ARCH based in
Austria, Germany, and France.  Also, it is an emerging Linux disto only on
0.8.8 now but a rolling release so am hoping that I enjoy that.  I watch
the Linux Action Show and Linus Unplugged on the Jupiter Broadcast network
on my ROKU so have learned quite a bit from them as well.

Was not sure if my email would get through since this is the first time I
have written to this community.  Glad it works.

Don



On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:

> On 01/10/2014 04:19 PM, Don wrote:
> > Name is Don.  Joined the COLUG mailing list in December.  Have been
> > reading the mailings and clearly it feels like the conversation is
> > over my head since I am just a Linux user, but dumped Windows years
> > ago and just have enjoyed disto-hopping and learning what I can.  This
> > list feels composed of IT professionals and Sys Admin types, so hope I
> > am not out of place.
>
> Welcome!
>
> Many of us *are* IT professionals, but the group is *not* exclusive.
> Many of us are also hobbyists. (If we're both at the same time, that can
> be a blessing and a curse.)
>
> > My current setup is Manjaro Linux with the XFCE environment.  I added
> > Gnome Shell on top of that using command line, and it seems to be
> > working just fine.  I had some issues getting rid of the MDM that came
> > with the system when I tried to add Gnome's Display Manager, but
> > deleted it and added the Gnome system and was faced with a command
> > prompt instead of the GUI.  The Majaro WIKI helped me find the command
> > to activate the Gnome GUI environment.
>
> I'm unfamiliar with Manjaro, but fond of XFCE. I use GNOME most of the
> time ... mostly because it was there already.
>
> If you plan to experiment then I recommend you learn as much command
> line and "text mode" as you can. Makes recovery a lot easier.
>
> > Am retired and just enjoying what I can learn.  Hope I have entered
> > this list correctly.  Would like to attend the Linux convention this
> > year for the first time.
>
> Great! Ohio Linux Fest is a growing phenomenon.
>
> -- Rick Troth, Grove City; <><
>
>
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