Hello Forum! 
User @Condobloke brought to my attention this area of the Forum, encouraging me to introduce myself. So here I am!
I live in East Europe. I studied as a Film Director and I'm currently working in the Quality Control department of a multinational company that operates in the IT/Entertainment field. If you're wondering why I'm not working as a Film Director, well, there are many reasons. One of them is nepotism, which is widespread in the country I live in. I could give you more than one example about it, but I don't want to bore you.
Another reason is after University I was not mature enough professionally speaking, and I also had the wrong approach: I thought making a good short movie and participating to multiple International Film Festivals would be enough to get a good job. I was wrong.
In any case, I'm not giving up and I'm still trying to be active in the Film/Video field: I'm submitting my old short movie to as many Film Festivals I can; I made the trailer of a video game, that ultimately was not launched, but the trailer was published; I did some corporate videos for the company I work for; I recently started to make AMVs (that is Anime Music Videos) (that is music videos that use Japanese cartoons as footage).
I started using Linux about 12 years ago. Or even more, I'm not sure. I found out about Linux from an internet friend that is a programmer, and was often advertising the advantages of Linux. So I downloaded the most popular version, Ubuntu, burned it to a rewritable DVD and installed it. I knew little to nothing about it: I didn't know that uses a different file system, I didn't know if I could use my files with it (documents, pictures, videos), I didn't know if it had software to perform all actions I was doing with Windows. I basically knew almost nothing except for the fact that is gratis and virus free software. I liked the idea of a free and reliable OS so I made the jump.
Linux revealed to be full of pleasant surprises. I was able to achieve more than I expected with it. But in my opinion it had, and it still has, a big problem: many of the essential and necessary operations have to be done using text commands. I think this is anachronistic and not user friendly. But as I said, I like the idea of free software very much. So I tried to learn to use it, but making the minimum efforts in terms of text commands. I just simply don't like the idea. I think GUI should be available for any kind of operation. Text commands can be used for the occasions when GUI malfunctions. Or by users that prefer text commands to GUI.
Fortunately, I received a lot of help from the Community, and ultimately managed to fix most of the issues. Not without efforts and time/energy loss, though.
During the years I also briefly experienced other distros:
I would like to take the opportunity to thank the members of this Forum that already helped me a lot!
Best to all of you!
User @Condobloke brought to my attention this area of the Forum, encouraging me to introduce myself. So here I am!
I live in East Europe. I studied as a Film Director and I'm currently working in the Quality Control department of a multinational company that operates in the IT/Entertainment field. If you're wondering why I'm not working as a Film Director, well, there are many reasons. One of them is nepotism, which is widespread in the country I live in. I could give you more than one example about it, but I don't want to bore you.
Another reason is after University I was not mature enough professionally speaking, and I also had the wrong approach: I thought making a good short movie and participating to multiple International Film Festivals would be enough to get a good job. I was wrong.
In any case, I'm not giving up and I'm still trying to be active in the Film/Video field: I'm submitting my old short movie to as many Film Festivals I can; I made the trailer of a video game, that ultimately was not launched, but the trailer was published; I did some corporate videos for the company I work for; I recently started to make AMVs (that is Anime Music Videos) (that is music videos that use Japanese cartoons as footage).
I started using Linux about 12 years ago. Or even more, I'm not sure. I found out about Linux from an internet friend that is a programmer, and was often advertising the advantages of Linux. So I downloaded the most popular version, Ubuntu, burned it to a rewritable DVD and installed it. I knew little to nothing about it: I didn't know that uses a different file system, I didn't know if I could use my files with it (documents, pictures, videos), I didn't know if it had software to perform all actions I was doing with Windows. I basically knew almost nothing except for the fact that is gratis and virus free software. I liked the idea of a free and reliable OS so I made the jump.
Linux revealed to be full of pleasant surprises. I was able to achieve more than I expected with it. But in my opinion it had, and it still has, a big problem: many of the essential and necessary operations have to be done using text commands. I think this is anachronistic and not user friendly. But as I said, I like the idea of free software very much. So I tried to learn to use it, but making the minimum efforts in terms of text commands. I just simply don't like the idea. I think GUI should be available for any kind of operation. Text commands can be used for the occasions when GUI malfunctions. Or by users that prefer text commands to GUI.
Fortunately, I received a lot of help from the Community, and ultimately managed to fix most of the issues. Not without efforts and time/energy loss, though.
During the years I also briefly experienced other distros:
- Ubuntu Studio: I quickly gave up on this one because, apart from installing a lot of software I don't actually use, it was extremely strict in term of drives permissions. I had the option to google the drive permissions and fix them. I said no way, I don't need this shit. Going back to regular Ubuntu!
- Lubuntu: I had an old PC and installed Lubuntu because I planned to give it to my mother. But she didn't like the OS so the plan failed. Regardless of that I have to say I really liked the simplicity and the speed of Lubuntu. Too bad it doesn't offer the same software variety as Ubuntu.
- Kubuntu: this one I installed just out of curiosity. When I used it I noticed it looks more like Windows than Linux. It was just a superficial and short interaction. But from what I recently read I think it might better suit my needs: it's more customizable, has more apps and uses less resources. Not to mention that the most important app I use with Linux, that is Kdenlive, comes from the KDE environment. So I really think I will switch to Kubuntu next time I'll have the occasion. Also because Ubuntu 24.04 gave me a lot of problems, and I would advise everybody to stay away from it.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank the members of this Forum that already helped me a lot!
Best to all of you!
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