Online handles are, from my experience, for life*. Regrettably, mine was chosen before embarking on my computer adventures, and so it begins with a capital letter. I half expect to stick out like a sore thumb here.

I have reached this forum through xeno's private website. I do not, however, remember how I ended up there. I would like to say hello to every active user on the website and hail any past greats.

I am a software engineer living in Zürich. After several adolescent infatuations (teenage love never ends well) with Linux distributions, I settled on packing my data bags and moving away from an unimpressive Windows 10 OEM installation to use Linux full-time. I have since become quite productive (objectively, per keystroke :)) and unspeakably happy about the facilities for creating a keyboard-centric workflow.

Much has been said about the virtual terminal and the shell. Personally, I find it indispensable and a cornerstone of successful and creative work on a computer. There are many tools within the kaleidoscope of Linux software worth their mention, but the fundamentals such as sed, grep, find, (m)locate and (n)vim, included with most distributions and adequately introduced in books such as Unix Power Tools gather every bit of lasting praise they deserve. At the same time, I cheer on the curious and zealous who sweat to bring modern alternatives with competing functionality, such as rg, to the table.

I am no operating system zealot, but surely an ardent enthusiast of one (Linux). The promised fruits of the UNIX philosophy are bestowed upon me daily. I have aliases, functions and scripts which solve genuine problems I encounter. I can use the pipe to join programs and the impression of sheer power it makes on me hardly ever disperses.

I work on a Thinkpad X1 Yoga 3rd [2018] and also have an HP Spectre X360 [2017].

As a welcoming gift, I humbly offer the recently written SEGA Plymouth theme generator found at https://github.com/Igrom/plymouth-theme-sega.

Best regards,
Igrom

*Curiously enough, I have met many a video game player who changed them almost weekly...