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jalfro

New Member

From: Manchester, England

Registered: 2012-09-13

Posts: 8

Hi all

Finally got round to saying hello. 

Some history.  Not a geek (rather, a bit of a slow learner IT-wise), but attracted by the Free Software philosophy, I first read about Stallman and software freedom in 2002.  Spent the next 6 years gradually replacing the apps on my Windows desktop with Free Software.  In 2008 I finally got a working Linux system - an Asus eee.  The following year I bought a desktop box from Linux Emporium - a wonderful shop, the nice people there gave me tons of help when I didn't know what I was doing.  From then on I happily ran Ubuntu as my main OS until Unity came along and spoiled it.  During this period I was also experimenting with other OSs (I had three spare systems partitions on the desktop, which the Emporium people set up for me).  #! was always attractive for its clean interface, speed and anti-cruft philosophy, so I decided to make the switch.

So here I am.  Struggling a bit with the audio, but very happy to be here.

John

johnraff

#!Drunkard

From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2009-01-07

Posts: 2,497

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Re: Hi all

Hi John, and welcome to CrunchBang!
If you find yourself struggling with anything, just ask - I'm sure someone will jump in and help you.

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( a boring Japan blog , and idle twitterings )

VastOne

#! Ranger

From: #! Fringe Division

Registered: 2011-04-26

Posts: 9,883

Website

Re: Hi all

Welcome to CrunchBang and the Community jalfro, we are glad to have you!

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vicshrike

#! by Default

From: /threadkill

Registered: 2009-02-13

Posts: 2,443

Re: Hi all

The switch is a great decisions of you, welcome to #! and forums jalfro.

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#!, all else is but a shadow!

ENOUGH;)

jalfro

New Member

From: Manchester, England

Registered: 2012-09-13

Posts: 8

Re: Hi all

thanks folks,

I've just managed to lock myself out of my #! install - I installed solusos and it overwrote the grub menu with just its own entry.  So I'm frantically studying grub tutorials to try to get back in.  But I'll be back soon no doubt with plenty of questions.

lcafiero

The #! Guy

From: Felton, California, USA

Registered: 2011-07-21

Posts: 1,438

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Re: Hi all

Welcome to CrunchBang, John, and hope you get the grub thing sorted out -- oh, and by the way, there's a lot of info on the forums here. Enjoy!

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dura

Bloated Gimp

From: interzone

Registered: 2012-09-15

Posts: 2,081

Re: Hi all

Yo

cJones

#! Junkie

From: Oregon

Registered: 2012-02-21

Posts: 447

Re: Hi all

Welcome to #!

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merelyjim

#! Die Hard

From: Fort Worth, Texas

Registered: 2010-04-07

Posts: 2,296

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Re: Hi all

Welcome to #!

There's a lot to be said for RMS and the FSF. Sometimes appears taken to extremes, but just as essential as LT to Linux.
Glad you made it .

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jalfro

New Member

From: Manchester, England

Registered: 2012-09-13

Posts: 8

Re: Hi all

Hi all,

thanks for the warm welcome!  Don't worry, merelyjim, I'm not a zealot... I can't afford to be with the amount of proprietary software I've got loaded here