Okay, my Linuxy brother started me on Linux Ubuntu Dapper. I really don't like the command line stuff all that much. I went back to Windows when Windows 7 was just coming out. Besides I don't like Jackalopes.

I'm not computer illiterate. I can talk OSI 7 layer model (and have even taught the concept in the past so folks could understand the software in a proprietary product we sold.) But I think computers should work for people. We should not have to spend valuable time typing away on command lines. I like GUI's. Not ashamed of it.

So, why the Round Peg:Square Hole in the Subject Line?

I like to go camping in the Vermont mountains. Alone. With my 22 yo daughter (new Civil Engineering grad).

I'm 60 yo. I don't have cable TV. But once I found Mr. Robot, I quickly became addicted. The only other TV show I watch is The Man in the High Castle. I have never seen an episode of any reality show, nor sitcom, nor drama in 15 years. Nor do I want to. Happy with my scifi/fantasy books and my music.

My current favorite music favorites are the Original Soundtrack from Transistor (the video game, but no, I didn't play the game...), most of the stuff from Phantogram, everything by The Black Keys, everything by Zola Blood (hard to find, but worth it), a lot of stuff from Halsey's Badlands album, the album A/B by the Icelandic group Kaleo (some of which sounds like Mississipi Delta Blues). Yes, I know at my age I should be listening to the Stones and Pink Floyd, but Jagger is ugly and Pink Floyd just isn't recording anymore.

What else to say? I knew I had to go back to Linux when MS started to put Windows 10 on my machine uninvited. I now run Ubuntu 16.04 with the Cinnamon 3.0 desktop. You know we old ladies like our Windows 7...

Oh, and my brother didn't send me. I found this place all on my own. And I'm happy to be here because there are a lot answers here.

Hello and welcome to the forum

What ... no Meatloaf? Styx? Kansas? Hatebreed? ACDC? Steppenwolf?

Welcome to the forums!

Don't be ashamed of liking the GUI. I use that nearly 100% and I open command lines when I need them. I do need them at varied times, sometimes a lot, sometimes never. Plus I write GUI's

Congratulations to your new grad. I hope she found some gainful employment.

Yes to all of the bands you mentioned. And Hot Tuna. But, I do get bored listening only to stuff I've heard for 20-30-40 years. Yeah, even my brother uses the GUIs when he can. He's a sysadmin, so... And my daughter has an interview next Monday that I think she's going to get. She specialized in Geotechnical and there just aren't enough.

Howdy and Welcome from another Linux using anomaly.

I liked your necro thread post that brought out "You have a hall pass for that" and moral policing replies, to your personal lifestyle replies, that are your business and no bodies else's business. IMO.

Welcome to the forum.

@rokytnji Thank you so very much for pointing out what I had already figured out - that I had replied to a necro thread, already pointed out to me by a sysadmin (whether it was an auto-generated message or not, I'm not sure, but the message had been received). Of course, I'm probably the first newbie that has ever mistakenly responded to a necro thread. My bad. (I would use a more up-to-date equivalent of "My Bad", but living in an apartment complex 85% full of Chinese graduate students attending RPI, I'm just not up on the current English equivalents. I have, however, taken the time to learn the correct pronunciation, including correct tonalities of the names of the grad students I know. I realize this could be, and probably is, a total non-sequitor, but learning people's "real" names has helped me establish friendships that have resulted in getting updated me on materials and their evolving use in electronic design, software-development tools now being used and discussions of the direction of software from machine language to RTOS and non-RTOS to the creeping additions to some RISC processors.)

Now to address what you called my "moral-policing" reply. This board is full of them: starting with the ever-repeated messages concerning how stupid non-Linux users, how many people are too stupid to use Linux, sig lines telling me Jesus Loves Me followed by a link to a short trip to hell. This commentary on moral-policing replies is written after spending a full day of reading different threads, not based on a single response to a necro thread. I'm sure I'm the first newbie that has ever responded to a necro thread.

As for having a hall pass for stating my personal beliefs? The voice in my head told me to say it.

Thank you for your flame - and it was. It is greatly appreciated. (Please note the use of sarcasm.) If you had just left it at pointing out I had replied to a necro thread, that would have been quite welcome to a newbie like myself. One who has already gone through three distros of Linux this year, as well as three desktops. On my honor, I will try to do my best to not reply to any more necro threads, to help other newbies (and others) and to obey the necros laws. (with apologies to scouting)

Also, did you notice the necro thread was never closed and was replied to? I am happy the original poster's mother is now 94 yo. (And that is not sarcasm.)

And so, "Right or wrong, I can hardly tell. I'm on the wrong side of heaven and the righteous side of hell." - from Wrong Side of Heaven by Five Finger Death Punch (Great song, IMNSHO)

Resurrection of necro threads happens, it is not the end of the world, and it will happen again.

No bounce, no foul.