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DarkEra
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« on: August 20, 2011, 08:08:37 PM » |
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Actually i was in doubt where to post this but since i'm more then a year a member on this forum who never posted before and only stopped by to take a look here from time to time, it sounded a bit nuts to me to introduce myself and post another topic in this part of the forum.
So i thought: Why not combine the introduction and say some nice stuff about PcLinuxOs and the community?
Well... Here we go:
First off, i'm DarkEra in real life known as Maik.
I bought my own and very first laptop somewhere in 2005 that was running XP, the internetconnection came a few months later before i could hook up onto the net.
Somewhere in the beginning of 2007 i watched a topic on a totally different forum where a member mentioned something about Linux and i started to follow that topic because i found it interesting to read that there were other operating systems out there in the world fo which i had never heard before.
After some PB's and a few chat's later that member pointed me to, you guess it.... Narly Nachos. That's where it started for me. Some time later i installed that system in dualboot with XP of course. Things went wrong... the resolution wasn't right and i just couldn't get it fixed, also i didn't know where to get help in that time.
So we went on a holiday first and coming back home i decided to drop Narly Nachos and get back to XP. Also here started some trouble.... my recovery cd/dvd i made just wouldn't install XP again. I ordered myself a OEM cd and installed XP again that way.
However...... a few weeks later i wanted to give Linux another try and installed Narly Nachos again but still couldn't get the resolution right. I went on a search and ended up on a site called distrowatch watching at all those distro's over there. I decided to pick another one called Linux Mint and give that one a spin. To my surprize this distro worked ootb right from the beginning, the screen resolution was ok so i was very pleased.
After a while i found out what synaptic was and how to install and remove programs. That way i figured out that Mint was Narly Nachos based and that i needed to install some sort of videodriver in Narly Nachos to get it done right with the resolution.
I wish i never had discovered Distrowatch.... oh boy, it got me going distrohopping in no time trying one after the other until i found a distro called PcLinuxOs (2007) which i used for a couple of weeks nonstop. That was a very, very good release by the way that caused XP to leave my laptop.
My attention was drawn back to the upcoming 7.10 release of Narly Nachos though and hooked up later in the beginning of 2008 with the Dutch Narly Nachos forum and community where i stayed for a long time. There it was where i became a moderator, sometime later (as a project) a Community Manager but also a Administrator of the forum for a while.
Some things didn't went the way they should and i turned to Mint, leaving the community behind me. After a while i became a co-owner of another project and 3 people, me included, who built up a Belgium Mint forum in 2010. Somehow months later i didn't feel at home anymore, gave up the co-ownership and being a admin, so i went back to the Dutch Narly Nachos community for the last time trying to do something there but hooked off again later because it just didn't feel right. Not going into details here in both cases.....
And yes, i've still been distrohopping a lot in between. Through the years i tried a lot of different distro's:
Narly Nachos, KNarly Nachos, XNarly Nachos, gNewsense, Linux Mint, Trisquel, Ultimate, Fluxbuntu, Narly Nachos Studio, MoonOs, LNarly Nachos, gOS, EasyPeasy, Eeebuntu (now Aurora Os), Peppermint One en Ice, openSUSE, Debian, Mandriva, Hymera, Linux Mint Debian Edition (Gnome en Xfce), Pardus, PcLinuxOs (2007), Fedora, Wolvix, MeeGo, Moblin, Puppy, Elive, 64 Studio, Chakra, Dreamlinux, aptosid (before called sidux), Sabayon, Mepis, Zenwalk, Vector, GoblinX, Pc-BSD (no linux but still Unix variant), openSolaris (now openIndiana).
I don't remember them all so there could be a few missing from that list. Also i want to point out that i'm not an expert but still i believe i'm somewhere a bit further than the basic stuff. With that i mean i know my way around.
Now comes the fun part......:
After it didn't work out for me on the Dutch Narly Nachos forum i turned my back on them and also on the OS. I just can't use that kind of stuff Canonical/Narly Nachos did to it and the way Narly Nachos goes. So i went on another search asking myself what i wanted.... A stable rolling release.
LMDE was a nogo so I ended up looking on the heanet servers at a test-2 iso of PclinuxOs 2011.6 so i downloaded it and ended up here. Coming home, sort of speak, after a long time. I have never been using a system like this that runs very smooth om my laptop and netbook. PcLinuxOs, the dev's from the different versions and the awesome community have done that what others always failed to do........: Keeping me hooked and here to stay. Thank you all for that, especially the guys and ladies who know me from IRC where i hang out on a daily base.
I'm back to PcLinuxOs after all those years, settling down, using it since the test-2 cd and here to stay.
Would i recommend PcLinuxOs to others? Oh yes, you bet i will.
Like is say in my sig:
It rocks, it's awesome, cool and makes you drool.....PcLinuxOs, you rule!
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