Sounds like a postcard; and I'm not actually in Switzerland, but close enough (at about 3 miles/5 km. from the frontier) to be able to see Lake Geneva.

Something about me: University training in Chemistry in London, UK. Didn't fancy life as a chemist, even a brewery chemist, so went into 'ADP' (Automatic Data Processing) getting the job 'coz I had heard about Fortran & Algol at uni. First machine I worked on was a Remington Rand (ICT) 1004 which could only be called a Stored Program Computer if you allow the program to be stored by hanging it on the wall! (Programming was by large plugboards, so there was a plugboard for payroll, another for supplier payments and so on.)

The members of this forum would get very bored with a recital of my 44 years working in IT so I'll quickly GOTO the point, post-retirement, when I bought an Acer Netbook running Acer's development of RedHat. This morphed into a dual-boot system, additionally running XP. The Acer version of Linux was more-or-less unsupported & I'd been given an early copy of Ubuntu in 2005 when I was in South Africa for work. I decided to download an up-to-date Ubuntu & to get it working on the Acer. Not only did it work, but I finally got the dual-boot to work without needing a flash drive plugged in.

Next step is when my Raspberry Pi arrives, hopefully in a couple of months time. Python sounds like it might be fun, and it's about time I learnt a new programming language. Last one was Microsoft 8086 assembler in 1983, and even that was only a conversion from other assemblers.

Please forgive any really dumb questions - I'll try to do plenty of my own research before posting anything, so what reaches here should only be a problem that is less than straightforward. All the same, you never know. Thanks for reading.

Hi and welcome to LQ, looking forward to your participation. If you are sincere there are no dumb questions.