I'm a Canadian high school student that finally moved away from Win7 to Ubuntu 13.04 this year. I've always wanted to learn more about *nix systems and found this forum through /r/unixporn on Reddit. You guys have such an awesome community who are willing to help out noobs so I'm probably going to lurk and learn your wizardly magic.

I spend most of my time lately practising Calligraphy and tinkering in Ubuntu with a little side gaming. I'm hoping to move over to a much more customizable system and get out of the kiddie pool into more advanced stuff this summer.

For your next distro definitely try out crunchbang. IMO it is a perfect distro to get used to linux with. It isn't as simple as Ubuntu but not horribly advanced. And Open-box is the shit.

Thanks! I was considering installing Crunchbang this weekend, time to settle in and do some research!

Crunchbang is good for a start exactly because of Openbox. You can get to know how to customize everything on your machine step by steps without worries.

Try FreeBSD. Seriously.

(05-07-2013, 03:10 PM)NeoTerra Wrote: Which province? :p ON here.

Greater Edmonton, Alberta.

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(05-07-2013, 07:29 AM)theconjuring Wrote: Try FreeBSD. Seriously.

I've heard of FreeBSD but I'm not really sure what it is, will add that to the big list of things to learn

Let me guess, your past-times include coming to BC and driving terribly?

Jokes. Sort of.

(05-07-2013, 04:50 PM)BigE Wrote: Let me guess, your past-times include coming to BC and driving terribly?

Jokes. Sort of.

You're right on the money there, but the 12 hour drive to Vancouver sucks.

I think that is generally why the Okanagan is such a popular place, it is way hotter than Vancouver, has no where near the overwhelming population, and cuts the drive in half.

(05-07-2013, 05:28 PM)NeoTerra Wrote: This post is so fucking Canadian.

It wouldn't be nearly half as funny if it wasn't 100% true.

(05-07-2013, 05:07 PM)BigE Wrote: I think that is generally why the Okanagan is such a popular place, it is way hotter than Vancouver, has no where near the overwhelming population, and cuts the drive in half.

The Lazy Man's BC experience.
Nice weather, by a body of water, wine

Lazy, the best kind of experience. I like it better than Vancouver. I don't care about shops and stores, it is cheaper to buy everything off of Amazon anyways.

(05-07-2013, 05:34 PM)NeoTerra Wrote: As someone from Ontario, I am laughing my ass off because I know it's 110% true. It's the same thing when people from Alberta come here and drive like complete asshats. It's also hilariously funny when some farm folks come with their country lifted Ferd F-150 and try to park it in a Toronto sized parking lot.

That's because Canada is really weird and has the best/worst stereotypes

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