Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

[marja]

Hi!
I'm new here too. I'm 18, from Spain...... So I was looking for a stable and user friendly distro, and I have found it, this is the best I have ever used! I'll join in the spanish translation team to help.

That is really great, the_loko

We still need someone to translate those help texts: http://doc.mageia.org/content/
Please contact https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Documentation_team if you're willing to help

[frankus0512]

Bon'jour!

My name is Frank and I'm from Sydney, Australia. Have been a Mac user for years and yes - I have to admit that I have been somewhat a Linux user on and off but have been staying away mainly because of the lack of stability when it comes to using it as a "work" functional OS.

I know this is a welcome / introduction thread, but I wanted to convey that I have never seen such a rock solid distro and such an easy distro to use in many months or even years, After the initial bootup from the KDE Live CD for Mageia 2 - I was sold, and it looks like I'm never turning back to either Mac or Windows for now (at least my DavMail + offlineimap + Kmail combo is also working rock solid too without having to do much tuning).

Feels good to be breathing the fresh air once again - and hopefully I can contribute further to the community as Mageia grows even more.

A huge congratulations for such an awesome distro and a huge kudos to those who made this happen!

[isadora]

A very warm welcome to the Mageia-forum frankus0512!!!!!

Good to hear about all those positive experiences so far.
And even better to hear about intentions to contribute, we can not have enough contributors.

Anyhow, have and keep pleasant times around!!!!

[marja]

Hi frankus0512

Good to hear that you enjoy Mageia. I was sold when I tried a LiveCD, too. That was some time before Mageia 1 was officially released.

Also really nice to see someone new from down under

The contributors I know from Australia and New Zealand are really great people, so you're more than welcome

Cheers,
marja

[gohlip]

Hi my name is Goh Lip. It was Mandrake which got me hooked on Linux, started with Red Hat. Have been on KDE ever since though have tried many distro's and DE's. So it was sort of like a coming home when I installed Mageia. I feel good that Mageia has gained backed it's 'independence', philosophically and hopefully financially.

Currently in my partitions are Kubuntu, Bodhi, Chakra and ta da..., Mageia. and oops... Windows 8, dev preview.
and boot several iso distro's, including my personalized remastered edition.
I use a dedicated grub partition (grub 2.00. rc1) to boot all of them.

Glad to be back.

[isadora]

A very warm welcome to the Mageia-forum Goh Lip!!!

Your name makes me curious, which country you are calling from.
Cambodia, my guess.

Enjoy Mageia and the community, and if..........some spare is left, please take a look at:
https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

[gohlip]

A very warm welcome to the Mageia-forum Goh Lip!!!
Enjoy Mageia and the community, and if..........some spare is left, please take a look at:
https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

Thanks for the warm welcome, and that's why I'm here. But I better feel my way slowly at first, being 'new again' (maybe getting Alzheimer's ?) despite using Mandrake and Suze in the past. Installation was easy and breezy enough as expected (from my past experience) and would make a great start for any new 'convert' to linux. However, installing proprietary (nvidia in my case) drivers would be difficult for them. For slightly more experienced users that want to dual boot with other linux distros, mix of uid's (500 vs 1000) may pose a problem to share data across partitions - I use separate partitions for data and another for configuration files to synchronize (by s-links) across distro's . But, as I said, I'm here to help and I repeat, Mageia is great start for new linux users who use a single linux distro (and windows, but who needs it anyway).

I have no problem personally with any issue and I feel like I'm back home (comfortable, relaxed and beer in hand).

Good points? plenty...no real need for command lines, clean, intuitive, easy to use for inexperienced users, easily modifiable to suit experienced users and this from the guys who popularized KDE in the first place. (thanks)
Some gripes?....sure, if we want to be picky.....er....slower startups - 'reconfiguration requests by administrator' - and grub-legacy....nope, that's it.

[marja]

Hi Goh Lip,

Welcome in the Mageia community

Nice to read that you got hooked by Mandrake. After (IIRC) trying Caldera and RedHat, Mandrake 8.1 was the first distro that really pleased me.

Thanks for wanting to help.

(I'm secretly hoping you feel drawn to Bug Squad)

[doktor5000]

Some gripes?....sure, if we want to be picky.....er....slower startups - 'reconfiguration requests by administrator'

Also a welcome from me. Do you care to elaborate on the latter part?

[GJones]

Hi there. I'm yet another Linux geek.

I've used rather a lot of distros, but never really touched Mandriva. Briefly used PCLinuxOS, got rid of it after a routine update clobbered my desktop configs. Took a look at Mageia recently, mostly because of the recent-but-not-bleeding-edge software, the convenient install DVD, and needing a distro that stays up-to-date without getting in my way all the time.

Gnome proved to be too heavy. KDE proved to be way too heavy. LXDE turned out to be pretty nice though, despite being a little rough around the edges, so it's what I'm using right now.

Truth be told I'm not amazed by Mageia... Not yet anyway. But it seems to actually be a distribution focused on usability, instead of some strange ideal of desktop elegance, so I do hope it has a bright future in store.

[doktor5000]

Gnome proved to be too heavy. KDE proved to be way too heavy. LXDE turned out to be pretty nice though, despite being a little rough around the edges, so it's what I'm using right now.

KDE is not that heavy if you tweak it a little (no desktop effects, no Npeomuk, no Strigi, no Akonadi, just the desktop) but you could try razor-qt desktop, which also offers a really small memory footprint and slick looks

[marja]

Hi there. I'm yet another Linux geek.

Welcome in the Mageia community, GJones

[Garthhh]

KDE is not that heavy if you tweak it a little (no desktop effects, no Npeomuk, no Strigi, no Akonadi, just the desktop) but you could try razor-qt desktop, which also offers a really small memory footprint and slick looks

Dok could you elaborate on removing or deactivating the apps you mentioned & anything else that will help speed up KDE
this is certainly a subject that could use a Mageia specific tutorial/wiki entry

[JasonSage]

Hello. I'm Jason. I've used Linux casually off and on for a few years. I've installed Ubuntu and Arch Linux a couple times each, but never stuck with any one distro for very long. Mageia is the first distro that I've enjoyed working with and I'm looking forward to working more in it and Linux in general.

[marja]

Hello. I'm Jason....... Mageia is the first distro that I've enjoyed working with and I'm looking forward to working more in it and Linux in general.

Welcome Jason, and great to hear this
I hope you'll enjoy the Mageia community just as much as the distro

[doktor5000]

KDE is not that heavy if you tweak it a little (no desktop effects, no Npeomuk, no Strigi, no Akonadi, just the desktop) but you could try razor-qt desktop, which also offers a really small memory footprint and slick looks

Dok could you elaborate on removing or deactivating the apps you mentioned & anything else that will help speed up KDE
this is certainly a subject that could use a Mageia specific tutorial/wiki entry

Sure, but in a separate thread or MAQeia. This is on my TODO list for quite a while, just didn't find some time for it yet.

[friTTe]

Hi everyone =)

Been distrohopping for all too long hehe, tried the Livecd and hot instantly hooked..installation for my ATI gfx was done with just a couple of clicks.
Everything works fine, but im brand new to Mageia...mostly been using Debian based stuff...and some Fedora, but im willing to learn cause this system is more stable than it ever been.

And fast

[isadora]

Very welcome to the Mageia-forum friTTe!!!!

As long as there is the will to learn, your pleasure into Mageia can only grow.
And as this pleasure grows, contributing could be a next step.

https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

[zeroday]

Hello everyone, I'm pleased to meet you all.

I'm 24 from England and I work in IT security. I have only had this job for 9 months but it is the perfect job for me because I love computers and everything to do with them. The only thing I find my job lacks is the use of Linux/UNIX as I've always wanted to become proficient using either (or both) of them and get away from the 'W' word!

I've disto hopped for quite a long time, I first tried out Red Hat, Slackware, Mandriva, FreeBSD and a couple of other distros in around 2005 but could never quite migrate fully away from Windows. Over the years since then I have always come back to Linux to try things out, I went through a phase of running a duel-boot with Ubuntu and Backtrack but again came back.

I now realise how much easier it is to just run things from within VMs to try them out instead of installing distros, wiping the disk then reinstalling Windows (I learnt quite a lot doing things the hard way ). I've been trying out quite a few distros recently that came free with a magazine and out of the 14 (very brief testing) I enjoy Mageia the most. I tried out the KDE flavour and it feels very polished and very nice to use.

Unfortunatly for me I will have to stick with Windows for the forseeable future as the only thing that Linux lacks is my biggest hobby - games. But I intend to do everything on Mageia except playing games. Although Ubuntu and Debian (or was it Fedora?) will be getting Steam! Along with a port of the Source engine so it could well be the end of the road for me altogether if Linux becomes a viable gaming platform too.

Anyway, I didn't mean to ramble on so much. I just like to say lasty, Mageia is now my distro of choice which I hope to have many happy years using and I hope I can contribute in some way to its success!

[isadora]

Zeroday, thanks for your extensive introduction.
Very welcome to the Mageia-forum!!!!

After your first short survey, i hope you get more and more time, to learn
Mageia is your choice for a longer time.

Enjoy, and.................wherever you see a chance, contribute!!!!!!
https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

[marja]

Unfortunatly for me I will have to stick with Windows for the forseeable future as the only thing that Linux lacks is my biggest hobby - games. But I intend to do everything on Mageia except playing games. Although Ubuntu and Debian (or was it Fedora?) will be getting Steam! Along with a port of the Source engine so it could well be the end of the road for me altogether if Linux becomes a viable gaming platform too.

Hi zeroday, welcome

When I write this, there are 236 games in Mageia 2, please check this page:
http://mageia.madb.org/group/list/t_group/78%2C20%2C64%2C10%2C30%2C46%2C74%2C1/level/2/group_name/Games

Which games do you miss?

Cheers,
marja

[zeroday]

Hi zeroday, welcome

When I write this, there are 236 games in Mageia 2, please check this page:
http://mageia.madb.org/group/list/t_group/78%2C20%2C64%2C10%2C30%2C46%2C74%2C1/level/2/group_name/Games

Which games do you miss?

Cheers,
marja

Hello, marja - thank you!

The games I play tend to be latest release sort of things and I have a fairly decent spec for running them. Playing Diablo 3 and Guild Wars 2 at the moment and have tons of other games on Steam so I don't think I'll be able to give up Windows any time soon.

Thanks for the link though, I will definitely be trying out some of those games so all is not lost on the gaming front of Linux for me

[tangylemon]

Hi, my name is Jon and I'm from New Zealand. I've only been in the land of "Penguins" since 2007. Actually it would have been a lot earlier if I could've gotten all of my hardware recognised, but that was then. I've since been disrtro-hopping, which appears to be a "newbie " trait on your initial journey of discovery, frustration and confusion. Recently I purchased a new Desktop, and no... I'm not going to flex my muscles and say "mines bigger than yours"... I'm way past that stage, but I've been absolutely blown away by Mageia 2's (64-bit) ease with which "she" absorbed all of my hardware without so much as a splutter... very cool! My partner has been so impressed with it, she's now asked me to install on her machine... even cooler

A great big thank you to all of the Mageia team for such an awesome distrobution. My flavour of choice is now KDE, but whatever flavour you choose, just say a big thank you...

Cheers
Jon

[isadora]

Jon, first a very warm welcome to the Mageia forum!!!!
We are glad to have you on board.

Great to read about your first experience with our community-made-distribution.

We hope to see you around frequently, and maybe, who knows, in future you are one of those,
making it possible, having such a wonderful piece of magic.

https://www.mageia.org/en/contribute/

[marja]

Hi, my name is Jon and I'm from New Zealand.

Hi Jon

Nice that you're from New Zealand. For me that is about the furthest away part of the world. It is great to see that there is growing amount of Mageia users there, and to see them pop in here or on IRC.

There is even a New Zealander in a Mageia team I'm in