Wow! Beautiful place (just searched it). Welcome!
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Hi everyone - I’m Jim. Been kind of grieving the end of Wimpy’s guidance with this - my favorite distro. I looked for a replacement. Then last night I ran update and upgrade and was surprised to see an upgrade to 26.04 LTS was offered for MATE. It worked with a few complaints - all fixed now. I’m no guru - just have enjoyed linux since the beginning in the late 1990s. Reported a few bugs - etc. I’ve used many distros, but only a handful really shine - imo. I look forward to this new community.
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Hi, @jmarkus 
Welcome to the forums!
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Twenty plus years in is a great vantage point. You’ve probably watched more distros come and go than most. Looking forward to your bug reports and your takes on what actually shines. Welcome to the forums! @jmarkus
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Hello Pere, if you are still into sheet-metal development, here are a few ideas.
FOSS-based
There is a “Sheet Metal Workbench” extension to FreeCAD. You might want to review that to see how well it meets your needs.
- Tutorial: Getting Started With the SheetMetal Workbench - FreeCAD News
- SheetMetal Examples - FreeCAD
- FreeCAD Sheet Metal Tutorial
Commercial - Free for Personal Use
Onshape is offered by PTC (formerly known as Parametric Technology Corporation, creators of the popular Pro/ENGINEER).
Enjoy!
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Hi Jim, Glad you found your way here! We tried to find a new home for UbuntuMATE users which kept the same spirit of openess and flexibility in discussions that people loved about the old forum. Luke, one of the old maintainers, has made arrangements to keep the old UM Discourse site up in archive form, so you can still make full use of that old content, just no ability to login. We are profusely grateful that he was able to arrange that for the old Community.
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Welcome to the many new arriving people this week; wow, I have to get back in here and catch up. Best wishes to everyone!
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Hi, I’m interested in the command cheat sheet. The link in the welcome message gives a 404 error.
https://linuxcommunity.io/t/100-useful-linux-commands-free-pdf-download/151
I’ll introduce myself now that I see where to do that.
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Hi, @sgtempe 
Welcome to our community!
Hi @sgtempe
Welcome to the forums. Sorry about that, fixed. Please try again. (There’s also a link in your DM inbox.)
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I’m a 23 year old geek who is interested in learning and playing around tech. I’m all ears to new and old stuff and want to build my portfolio in the IT field.
I graduated in information science and engineering last year, been on a break since my graduation, learning German, cleared IELTS, upskilling and building projects around networking.
I’m interested to learn linux and open source applications and I want to kickstart my career in this field.
I’m really excited about the journey.
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Welcome @anxi ! Pick a distro and start daily driving it, check out some distro here:
Or my best picks here:
Your networking background pairs great with Linux, spin up a home lab with a couple VMs, mess with SSH, WireGuard, Pi-hole. Learn bash, systemd, permissions, then Docker and Ansible.
See:
For open source, contribute to projects you actually use, docs and bug reports count. Document everything publicly, create a blog or GitHub, something you can maintain and look back at 10 years from now.
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Well, @ansi, I would suggest you scan the pages offered by the URLs listed in the above posting
They cover a wide range of topics that could be of interest in helping define your “path” within the field!
I believe that it would provide solid grounding for you to “dabble” with some of the hardware aspects, to gain an intuitive feel about the technologies, before moving to the “abstraction layer” of developping software controlling the hardware.
Learning German is excellent, if you are looking to push further along in the Engineering side more so than the software side, but with Germany getting more serious about wholesale replacement of anything Windows and non-European within their workflow, that looks like a good strategy as well.
A key decision to be made, only after you’ve gained a solid sense of the field, is whether your path tracks on being
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a Corporate contributor, or
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an Entrepreneur/Partner in your own “factory”!
That is key to the types of positions you should be pursuing as “technical internships” (not officially titled as such), stepping stones, to get the breadth of coverage, depth of exposure and intuitive grounding that will allow you to make the many necessary informed decisions.
Go forth and prosper!
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Great advice from two of our veteran contributors.
I’m very happy to see the experience of some of the older people who have recently joined, and I am also pleased with the questions being asked from our young members.
Collectively we can help each other.
I know that before I retired I was able to share some veteran tips to newcomers to the work force but I also learned some new technologies from the same newcomers; we can - and are - doing it right here as we welcome our newest members!
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Hi All,
I’m keen to upgrade my sysadmin skills and i believe in the culture of open software. Ive played around with a few versions first was Fedora now Linux Mint still a relative newbie when it comes to ports and servers but I 'm learning!
cheers
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hi @John1
Welcome to forums. Fedora indeed has so many solid spins!
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Which Desktop are you using:
- Cinnamon, or
- MATE ?
If MATE, you will find a solid bunch of people who’ve just emigrated to this site as our new landing pad, since the old UbuntuMATE Discourse was frozen as an archive, but still a rich, accessible resource.
The MATE Companions Group was the resulting re-grouping, for a more distro-agnostic MATE-focused Community. You might find that of interest if MATE is your thing.
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Hi, I’m an 8 year Linux Mint user and small time self hoster. I’m looking to learn more and hear how others are solving issues.
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Welcome to our Linux Community @floppringfish
We would love to hear more about what you self host. You are welcome to tell us about what you are working on here: What's everyone working on? 2026 edition ⌨ 🪛
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@floppringfish Welcome to our forum; looking forward to what you have to share.
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