• ethrg
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Topic: Great gobs of Torvalds!

Oh my, really must say #! is pretty sweet.

I grew up in a multi-os house as my father is a network engineer, so even when I was little I knew there was stuff out there besides MSDOS, Windows, and MACOS. I still remember when I got my first machine and we installed RedHat from a tape he made at work... but yeah I'm an nostalgic little *nix fan.

Over the years I've used everything from OpenBSD and Solaris to Debian and Slackware. I got a netbook a couple years ago that came with Ubuntu on it and recently upgrade it from Dell-buntu 8.04 to the latest bit of bloat to come out of Canonical. That lasted about two days and since then I've tried out quite a few different distros I've never looked at before. Nothing really caught my eye till I tried Mint. Naturally after a couple weeks I woke up and noticed that it's really just Ubuntu with a different set of UI defaults.

So then I tried #! and I seriously shouted "Great gobs... of... of.... Torvalds! This.... this.... is a... THING!" Which prompted my wife to call out from the other room, cautioning me to maybe not hit the gin so hard. And here we are now, over a week later-and somewhat sober-and I have yet to find a single thing I don't like about #!

It has everything I ever wanted in a distro. The best parts of Debian, with not too much of their fundamentalist ways. It doesn't just assume I want Gnome, or XFCE, or KDE, or try and force me to use some ridiculous iTunes knock-off if I want to play some tunes (been using moc for nearly a decade now). It's beautiful and light without being rigid or taking itself to seriously. I freaking love it. But I must confess, in my head I keep saying "PromptBang" every time is see #!, but thats probably owning to being root far to often.

....anyways, hi. And if anyone important is reading this: Please please please, stay awesome!

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Re: Great gobs of Torvalds!

Awesome, welcome to the #! community! You will see it is indeed an awesome place.

Take a coffe, a cigar or a beer. We have many things to offer while you are computing with CrunchBang.

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Re: Great gobs of Torvalds!

Welcome to CrunchBang, ethrg!  Enjoy the Beef Stroganoff.

Yeah, Statler is freaking sweet, innit?

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  • ethrg
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Re: Great gobs of Torvalds!

Dude, how delicious is Бефстроганов?!?! I know my neighbors say the Hamburger Helper version is shit, but honestly her Borscht sucks anyway, I swear to god you tell a lady-one time-you've seen Night Watch and she thinks you're a freaking Russian.

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Re: Great gobs of Torvalds!

Sweet of you tu join us, welcome to #! ethrg.

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Re: Great gobs of Torvalds!

hi ethrg, welcome to the community!

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Re: Great gobs of Torvalds!

Welcome to #! smile

My girlfriend, a Mac user who might as well have the logo tattooed on her forehead, puts up with my mad devotion to Linux, as well. She refers to everybody on the forums as "the Linux people," and understands I have to commune often. So, the Gin crack, that I understand...

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Re: Great gobs of Torvalds!

Hey ethrg I enjoyed reading your opinion of #! You will fit in perfectly here because a lot of us regulars here are very passionate about #! and I agree with you on MOC I use mpd and MOC and I must say I don't think I will need a GUI media player ever again lol. Welcome to the community!

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Re: Great gobs of Torvalds!

ethrg wrote:

So then I tried #! and I seriously shouted "Great gobs... of... of.... Torvalds! This.... this.... is a... THING!"

Funny, that was my reaction, too big_smile Welcome to CrunchBang, ethrg!

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  • ethrg
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Re: Great gobs of Torvalds!

@merelyjim Heh, I just don't get Mac anymore. I used to kind of dig them, especially the old PowerBooks, back when they still used PPC processors they were just beautiful. But ever since they went to Intel I just don't get it. Heck if I can get OS X 10.6 up and running on this little Dell Mini 10v (I did, and don't listen to the hackintosh fanboys over at mydellmini.com, it sucked) then just how are they any different from *BSD with a realllllly restrictive license and a flashy GUI? But I digress...

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone, I'll do my best to live up to the incredible reputation your forum enjoys.

Last edited by ethrg (2012-01-31 18:14:08)

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  • Registered: 2011-05-12
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Re: Great gobs of Torvalds!

Welcome and enjoy the great distro called #!.

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