Just registered for the forum at http://ubuntuforums.org and started reading up on using the forum and reporting bugs (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1011078). I feel like an unpaid intern/deckscrubber traveling with a boatful of biologists. I'm learning how to track down bugs in new lands, identifying them, knowing I'll be rubbing at my own painful bites while I try to describe the bug to keep others from being bitten.
What I'll be looking for in the next weeks running a Linux OS on a virtual machine is whether I'll learn it enough that I can one day throw out Windows altogether. The trick is that my family all works on one machine, and my husband needs an operating system that lets him use Microsoft Word and other office programs, as well as the internet, as effortlessly as possible. He doesn't care about open-source vs. proprietary because he is up to his ears in lesson plans. (My son, on the other hand, is 7 turning 8, and is eager to tinker around. Maybe too eager.)
We shall see whether the class that's guiding me through all of this will move me from novice to personal tech support, Ubuntu division.
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