Nice you have you join us @Ldbennet
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Hello,
I started on Slackware and Redhat 4.0
Later followed : Debian, Mepis, Knoppix, Mandrake, Mint, All the Ubuntu’s and nearly everything on DistroWatch as well.
Now I stick with Ubuntu Mate ( Cupertino ) and Mint Cinnamon
Greatings.
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Hey all! Hope this finds yall well.
I’m a househusband and recently found myself going down a tech rabbit hole.
I’m a bit new to tech stuff in general, though I decided to dive head first into it. I switched to Linux for the first time a few weeks back. I started with Mint for about 4 hours then moved straight into Arch + Hyprland and haven’t looked back since! (And only had to reinstall a handful of times! 
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Now I have parts coming in for my NAS / Media Server which when researching stuff about it, is actually how I found this site. Excited to learn going forward!
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Welcome to the community @consolecowboy77, great to have you join us! 
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Welcome to the Community!
Sorry to hear that you had to “endure” a “world tour” before landing on Ubuntu MATE! Glad you found the home that suits your needs!
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Hi, my name is David (DaveyRocket). I’m a retired, self-taught customized software developer and entrepreneur. I taught myself how to code in BASIC and ASSEMBLY on the original Atari 400 computer with a membrane keyboard (my fingers still hurt), 16 KB RAM, and no floppy or hard drive, just an external cassette tape drive that took 40 minutes to load a program. Now I want to learn Linux. I’m starting with Zorin for now.
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Welcome to the forums @DaveyRocket, nice to meet you! 
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Glad to see a fellow LaTeX enthusiast here! I also recently saw Typst and I’m tempted to try it out—although I wonder how it compares to the vast LaTeX scape of packages and functionality.
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Wow, LaTeX! Trivia question (without looking or cheating) Who can tell me the person who invented TeX formatting and additional bonus for LaTeX?
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A warm welcome to you @DaveyRocket !
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Welcome to the forum @consolecowboy77 !
Hope all goes well in Arch land! Be careful for a little while when it comes to using AUR packages - there was a recent problem that led to somewhere between 500-1500 AUR packages being damaged or invected, supposedly by a “new” AUR developer (who probably got banned from AUR after the incident). As long as you don’t use the AUR for a while, everything else should be A-OK in Arch land!
Eh, “What’s up, Doc?” (Bugs Bunny cartoon reference) Looks like you have been what’s known as a “Distro Hopper”, at least in the past; now I guess you simply LEAP back and forth - oops, that’s a "veiled reference to open SUSE “Leap” edition - they also have a Tumbleweed edition.
I’m an increasingly ancient Distro Hopper. I can’t match Grace Hopper for her coding expertise or some of the early Linux distro hoppers, who installed between 50-100 systems on ONE multi-disk workstation!
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Hi, I am Johnny. I am an IT professional of over 20 years, a Software and Full-Stack developer, and a Linux power user. I love all things tech and I am glad to be here.
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Welcome to our community @RootAccess, thanks for joining us! 
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I guess from my perspective I just ask myself will Typst produce a better looking PDF than LaTeX can? And if so, is it worth my time learning YAL (yet another language)? From what I’ve seen, Typst is very impressive and probably more intuitive for beginners, but all my work is heavily mathematical and I use Asymptote and TikZ a lot, I’m not sure how those work in a Typst context. So I think I’m stuck where I am for life. 
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Knuth – I have his original book. The TeXbook! (although I cannot typeset this post in the way the title “The TeXbook” is set. The “e” should be capitalised and on a lower baseline. Does anyone know how to do that (OK, I think I can manage the capital “e”) but set the middle bar of capital “E” on (just above) the baseline of the other text. Genuine question.
What do I get as a bonus? Leslie Lamport.
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Buongiorno sono Alberto sono appassionato di informatica e da circa due anni ho iniziato ad esplorare linux prima installando le distro classiche sono ad arrivare ad arch
Il PC viene usato in famiglia da tutti per uso quotidiano. Ho scelto e abbiamo scelto linux perché stanchi di Windows.
Spero di trarre spunto per imparare qualcosa in più
Grazie a tutti
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Right on @rogerp! You win the prize! I’ve actually written a few papers and instead of using a classic word processor, I just wrote everything in plain text, then when I was nearly done, I organized it, then used some kind of formatting tool. At least one time I used TeX, but I may have also used one of the generations of a *roff tool, so I looked it up; the original roff was based on a tool called runoff, which I’ve also heard of. troff, ditroff and nroff are three variations of the roff tool; these can be surprisingly useful, because typing in plain text can be much faster; then when done writing, the idea is to format the writing later; works GREAT!
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Benvenuto nella community @Alby, siamo felici di averti con noi!
Welcome to the community @Alby, great to have you join us!
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hello, Jay here from Southern Cali
New to IT and trying to expand my knoledge
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I see a few familiar faces here! I miss the MATE Discource but glad some of you have found a new home. Thanks to @Norm24 for the shout.
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