Hello World :)
Posted: 2018-03-20 15:13
Hey folks, I've been a linux user for a while now (exclusively linux since April of 2015, but toyed around with it in like 2007-2009 as a youth). I've been hopping around from distro to distro, because that's the only way to really figure out which one works best for you, but I finally decided to try debian after experiencing some glitches with kde neon recently. It might have been my own fault by including nested &'s to background a script (didn't realize it already had one for what I was trying to background within the script), but honestly I have no idea what happened or if that even caused it. I had had some other quirks pop up as well though before that. Regardless, I heard that debian was notorious for being a stable distro and after doing some more research I decided to give it a proper try (tried it in the past but had issues because I didn't know linux that well). Because after a while I realized that I really don't give a crap if I have all the shiniest new software if it doesn't actually work well in the first place.
Immediately I was thrown off by not having the drivers for my wifi card included in the installer, however I found the unofficial build that includes them and made an installer with that instead. After that it was actually a fairly simple installation. All the options a power user would want with the simplicity of a GUI. So far it's been a pretty painless experience, with the only minor glitch being the fact that the keyboard icon in the system menu (kde) is blank, even though it's still there and I can interact with it (to my own admission, I tried turning it off in the settings but might have messed up). Whatever, that's just linux I guess, everything else has been pretty stable besides that. I tried for known bugs on certain software I used and none of them have shown up yet which is really reassuring.
What has stood out to me the most about debian in my very brief time using it isn't anything software related, it's actually the community that exists around it. The wikis are well populated, it's the oldest distro, and the forum is actually active (as active as forums these days are anyway). The fact that it's not just some company's pet project to invest in open software and find some miracle solution to profit off of if it ever finally goes big is very appealing. Immediately upon joining the forums I noticed the "Free as in beer" hardware give away and that's when I knew that I found the right distro and the right crowd. Hell, I was curious about the release cycle, how that works, etc and before I even bothered to start searching someone's forum signature literally had links answering my questions about that too!
So enough rambling, just thought I'd say hello and I think I'm here to stay
P.S: I'm looking to contribute Spanish translations to the project and maybe try my hand at bug triaging down the line. I already checked out the wiki and joined the mailing list for l10n-spanish but if there are other resources I should check out I would be pleased to look at them.
Immediately I was thrown off by not having the drivers for my wifi card included in the installer, however I found the unofficial build that includes them and made an installer with that instead. After that it was actually a fairly simple installation. All the options a power user would want with the simplicity of a GUI. So far it's been a pretty painless experience, with the only minor glitch being the fact that the keyboard icon in the system menu (kde) is blank, even though it's still there and I can interact with it (to my own admission, I tried turning it off in the settings but might have messed up). Whatever, that's just linux I guess, everything else has been pretty stable besides that. I tried for known bugs on certain software I used and none of them have shown up yet which is really reassuring.
What has stood out to me the most about debian in my very brief time using it isn't anything software related, it's actually the community that exists around it. The wikis are well populated, it's the oldest distro, and the forum is actually active (as active as forums these days are anyway). The fact that it's not just some company's pet project to invest in open software and find some miracle solution to profit off of if it ever finally goes big is very appealing. Immediately upon joining the forums I noticed the "Free as in beer" hardware give away and that's when I knew that I found the right distro and the right crowd. Hell, I was curious about the release cycle, how that works, etc and before I even bothered to start searching someone's forum signature literally had links answering my questions about that too!
So enough rambling, just thought I'd say hello and I think I'm here to stay
P.S: I'm looking to contribute Spanish translations to the project and maybe try my hand at bug triaging down the line. I already checked out the wiki and joined the mailing list for l10n-spanish but if there are other resources I should check out I would be pleased to look at them.