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[Adam McClure <adam.mcc5@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's been a year since the last post!

🎁🎉🎈🎁🎉🎈Hooray!!!!🎈🎉🎁🎈🎉🎁

Now, to make this mailing list active again, I thought we could discuss
the stories behind why we use Ubuntu.

I got the idea to do this after I found a thread (What was your Linux
noob experience like?
<https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=191637>) that I
started on 10 March 2015 on the Linux Mint Forums.

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*Here's my story*

At some point in either early-2007 and late-2008, I first considered
using an operating system that was not Windows XP. During that time, I
first heard of Open-SUSE in 2010 and I installed it on a mid-2011 Lenovo
V570 in 2012.

I kept the pre-installed Windows 7 so I could still boot it even though
I mainly just used GNU/Linux.

Open-SUSE was the first time I ever used GNU/Linux and I thought that it
would be exactly like Windows.

I also tried (and failed at) using Windows 8 and I quickly uninstalled
not long later.

About a year later, I switched to Ubuntu for the first time. I didn't
have as many problems with getting working software as I did with
Open-SUSE.

I used Ubuntu on-and-off for the next few years and had Linux Mint on my
(old) PC until the charging adapter stopped working and I got a new
laptop. I still don't know exactly what happened to the Lenovo V570. The
original forum post said that the laptop overheated.

On my new laptop, I uninstalled Windows 8.1 and installed Linux Mint
17.1. A few months later, I switched to Ubuntu 15.10 and I used Ubuntu
ever since then.

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