Hello,
My name is Dan. i was thirty years a furniture maker, so I did not grow up with computers. Eventually I taught myself AutoCAD so i could start designing furniture instead of spending my days on the workbench, though I truly loved working the bench. When the industry tanked and I had to look for a living elsewhere, with no college degree and little money, I decided to go into computers as there are computers in every industry and profession. Thus, I studied and earned MCP, MCSE, and MCOE certifications from Microsoft. Now I am working as one of two IT personnel in a company that uses about 220 computers and servers, all one version of Windows or another from 2000 through Windows 10 and Server 2012.
I have played with Linux a little here and there; used Ubuntu a little and Linux Mint a couple of times; always on a very slow and old laptop with 512 RAM or less. Have tried to learn bash shell commands but have not been very successful....yet. Have played with MAC some because our website guy uses one and I have to make it work with our Windows servers, etc.
Thlis laptop I ended up with when doing a data xfer for someone and they were going to toss it to the garbage because it had Vista. I took it and loaded LL 3.2 on it and here I am, hoping to learn, and to become Microsoft free, at least in my personal life. I am tired of being nickle/dimed by MSFT, and having them monitoring every keystroke and have Cortana tell me "she" can do everyting for me.
So i picked "Learning" for my moniker because that is what I hope to be doing here!
Oh, BTW-If you haven't noticed...I can be a little verbose...
My name is Dan. i was thirty years a furniture maker, so I did not grow up with computers. Eventually I taught myself AutoCAD so i could start designing furniture instead of spending my days on the workbench, though I truly loved working the bench. When the industry tanked and I had to look for a living elsewhere, with no college degree and little money, I decided to go into computers as there are computers in every industry and profession. Thus, I studied and earned MCP, MCSE, and MCOE certifications from Microsoft. Now I am working as one of two IT personnel in a company that uses about 220 computers and servers, all one version of Windows or another from 2000 through Windows 10 and Server 2012.
I have played with Linux a little here and there; used Ubuntu a little and Linux Mint a couple of times; always on a very slow and old laptop with 512 RAM or less. Have tried to learn bash shell commands but have not been very successful....yet. Have played with MAC some because our website guy uses one and I have to make it work with our Windows servers, etc.
Thlis laptop I ended up with when doing a data xfer for someone and they were going to toss it to the garbage because it had Vista. I took it and loaded LL 3.2 on it and here I am, hoping to learn, and to become Microsoft free, at least in my personal life. I am tired of being nickle/dimed by MSFT, and having them monitoring every keystroke and have Cortana tell me "she" can do everyting for me.
So i picked "Learning" for my moniker because that is what I hope to be doing here!
Oh, BTW-If you haven't noticed...I can be a little verbose...
There is always something to learn from each other 
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