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[Scott Randby <srandby@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was a Mac user starting in the late 1980s and stayed with that for along time. When OS X came along, I spent a lot of money on new hardware and software because I didn't want to go to Windows (which I thought was the only alternative). 

The company that produced some important software I used went out of business around 1998 and I lost a lot of data. I learned about free software and switched to it as much as possible on my Apple machines. But Apple just made it more and more difficult to install free software so I looked into replacing OS X sometime in 2006. I discovered Ubuntu, installed it and have never looked back. I did switch to Xubuntu when Unity came along, but that is just a matter of preference.

I work at a university (not in IT) in which almost everyone uses Windows or Macs. The head of IT here is a Mac user who constantly complains about the problems he has installing the stuff he needs to use. One day, he was complaining a lot, so I opened up Synaptic Package Manager (yes, I still use that), found the package he needed and installed it on my machine in less than 1 minute. He still uses a Mac and complains. I don't get it.

People gripe about updates starting on their Windows machines when they are teaching and how the required disk encryption causes various disruptions. No updates messing up your class with Ubuntu and full disk encryption is a snap. I don't understand why so many willingly give up control of their machines when they don't have to.

Scot Randby

On 04/23/2018 07:51 PM, Adam McClure wrote:
> It's been a year since the last post!
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> *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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