NYLoCo Answer

[Nathan Eckenrode]

On Sunday 06 May 2007 21:02:09 private wrote:
> A QUESTION TO EVERYONE:
> We want to hear about your first experiences with Ubuntu. Let us know
> how you discovered it and why decided to use it. How was your first
> experience using Ubuntu?
>
i bought a computer nearly three years ago off craigslist.org. it was anold 
apple titaninum powerbook G4. it came with tons of programs that worked for a 
month because the guy who sold it to me "loaded with applications" had 
installed the trial versions! so i started looking for free replacements, 
which lead me to firefox- i then heard about open source- thunderbird and 
nVu. then i began digger farther and found linux, or heard of it again. i 
always thought that it was for nerds. i also got the gimp for OS X to replace 
the photoshop that i had lost. 

it was then when i was trying to modify my desktop to look really realy cool- 
that i found some programs like xplanet and first heard of the difference 
between GNOME and KDE. when i saw the first ubuntu web pages and read teh 
philosophy i began to consider that the free programs that i was enjoying on 
OS X could be so much better on a free os. 

got a couple new(to me) relics from various sources and began experimenting 
with installing Warty on them. then when my Hoary cds arrived from ShipIt, i 
was really in business. the final step happened when my HD failed in the 
workhorse Mac and i needed to get back online in a quickness, as i was in the 
middle of some serious college stuff. after performing a replacement for the 
HD- because i did not have an OS X CD, i had to install something- so it was 
Ubuntu on my PPC.

 i have expanded my collection of machines and begin testing the new release 
on at least one machine as soon as there is a new Herd/Flight/Flock 
available. generally, by the time the first release candidate is out i have 
all my machines transistioned. i am looking forward to the next release of 
kubuntu because there maybe the newest version of KDE out by then. hopefully 
KDE4 will be set up. anyways

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