I've been using Linux since 2000.Tried several distros and settled on Ubuntu by about 2002. I now use Ubuntu Mate as I was not happy with Unity.

I earned B.S.E.E. in 1966 from Cal Poly Pomona and while I got my JD and practiced law for a while I got my first PC in 1983 and realized my interest was in writing code.

I'm 73 and retired but I try to stay tuned in by developing projects for myself. Currently building a Medication Journal on Eclipse using Python and Django.

Normally I don't ask many questions but enjoy looking at how others have approached problems I have faced using Linux. I intend to do a fresh install of Ubuntu Mate from a USB drive and I may need to see how others handled this effort. I will backup my home directory, but I want a clean new install of 16.04.

Hello and welcome to the forum, feel free to ask any questions you may have.

Welcome to the forum. I'm sure you will be happy with 16.04.

Welcome to LQ.

Welcome to the forums, Clydewstitt!

Always great to hear that someone who worked as an engineer, still is one! Seems as if I'll never quit myself, even if I stop working, similar to what you're doing.