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Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Oct 4th, '21, 12:46
by Phlox
Bonjour!

It was the year 1999... some bored guy (me) with Windows tried mandrake Linux. (I have somewhere the install cdroms)

Since then many distros have come and go on my computers and now I give Mageia a try.
This distro looks oddly familiar!!!

I am not the brightest due to my handicap but I managed to learn allot about free software and what not.

Greetings from the Netherlands! :ugeek:

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Oct 4th, '21, 19:06
by morgano
Much Welcome, Phlox :)

Yes I like that Mandriva carry its heritage with pride :)

If you need some starting tips see a few posts earlier in this thread.

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Oct 4th, '21, 19:08
by isadora
Van harte welkom Phlox!!!!! :)

Welcome to the Mageia-community, a place to be for all those who are familiar to everything legacy of Mandrake/Mandriva-era, and of course for all others who haven't. ;)

Wish you magical times with our distribution and community.

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Oct 5th, '21, 17:55
by Phlox
Thanks for the warm welcome!

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Nov 30th, '21, 05:19
by epp
Greetings from the northeastern U.S. Hasn't yet snowed locally, but I'm sure it's coming...

During my early Linux days, I installed Mandriva on a 32-bit computer and with Mageia, I am recognizing some of the features from Mandriva.

Mageia has been installed on one of my 64-bit desktops, to try out, after running it in a virtual machine under Debian and so far, I like it. I was very pleased to discover that the Bluetooth USB dongle I have, was recognized right out of the box. I installed Bluetooth Manager (blueman) and it paired the headphones.

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Nov 30th, '21, 10:19
by isadora
A warm welcome to the Mageia-community epp!!! :)

Sure you will recognize many things from your Mandriva-period, but meanwhile we are already into an 8th release of it's successor and building on version 9.

Besides enjoying the community and the release, we gladly invite you for contributing in one of many ways:
https://www.mageia.org/en-gb/contribute/

Wish you magical times!!!!

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Dec 4th, '21, 02:00
by epp
Hi isadora. Thank you for the warm welcome.

I made the decision tonight (local time) to install Mageia on my main desktop as well. Just finished installing, also with the LXQt desktop.

I had some issues with the now-previous distro, that went from bad to worse.

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Feb 20th, '22, 18:04
by kennygr
Hello Y'all,

My name is Ken and I'm an old guy who lives in the State of Texas. I'm just starting with Mageia, and don't know really anything about "How to...", so I came here to try to learn.

In my previous setting, I was subject to the abuse of win 10, and got so disgusted with the developer of that garbage that I finally left them. Imagine, you buy all the hardware to build your own PC, including putting out the money for their OS, only to figure out you aren't allowed to change the Name of your computer because ??????.

Anyway, I have lots of questions, like Where do I get all of the screen themes that I "installed" (I think) correctly? I found the list of backgrounds and themes available, installed some and clicked on the "Use" button, but, nothing changed. So what do I do now?

I'm looking around, and will be asking questions. I hope I will be able to make some Friends on here. :D

Ken,
Houston, TX

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Feb 20th, '22, 19:37
by Germ
Hi Ken. welcome to Mageia!

You should start a new topic with your questions in Basic Support. Be sure to let us know what desktop you are using.

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Apr 5th, '22, 16:08
by dragconf0usion
Hello everyone , I am Alexandre , recently few months ago I started to learn coding and then I learn the very basic coding (loop, statement, function...)by language c .Currently, I made some templates in html and css , afterward , I decided to learn php to make my own site from scratch .I started to learn coding cause I really am curious and interested about robotics , IA, innovation , space exploration, embedded systems etc . Originally, I am an electrician and I worked on automatic closing system(I mean gates and doors) but I would like to make this field of activity as professional in the future , not without of course , dedication and some lost skull hairs . I am an adherent of an association that valorizes free softwares and mageia distribution and support people to use these software for recycling old computers .So as you can guess ,I use mageia though I am a beginner in term of informatic skills , Nice to meet you !

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Apr 5th, '22, 18:37
by isadora
A warm welcome Alexandre, great to have you aboard.
Thanks for your introduction, sounds promising.

Whenever you feel inspiration, and have some spare time, i will gladly propose, to have a quick look at our contributing opportunities:
https://www.mageia.org/en-gb/contribute/

Wish you magical times with our community and Mageia, the distribution. :)

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: May 3rd, '22, 12:52
by ozky
Otto Leipälä aka ozky.....I'm new and old just going to back to Mageia until tested many other distros Mint Ubuntu Debian but this still get me back to home.... :)
I used many years Mandriva and then Mageia....until that time i did have problems with laptop......now i have good system to install Mageia again.......

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: May 3rd, '22, 14:11
by isadora
Welcome back ozky.
Yes sure, your name is still familiar to me........for centuries almost. ;)

Enjoy Mageia!!!

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: May 3rd, '22, 15:03
by ozky
Thanks Isadora :)

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: May 3rd, '22, 16:26
by Germ
Hi ozky. I remember you! Welcome back!

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: May 3rd, '22, 16:35
by ozky
Thanks :)

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: May 4th, '22, 16:57
by marja
Great to see you again, ozky, welcome back :-)

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: May 4th, '22, 19:27
by morgano
Yes welcome back
Also long time since I saw you too here on the forum Marja :)

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: May 5th, '22, 22:05
by benmc
welcome "home" Ozky.

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: May 12th, '22, 11:56
by ozky
Home is always Mageia....now i have system can run Mageia without problems.........My father died two years ago to cancer and i get he's computer...
But life goes on.....

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Jun 4th, '22, 13:26
by sihir
Hello!

I like Mageia so much! Mageia is the OS I like the most. I like Mageia more than Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows, MacOS, Chrome OS, or any OS.

I think my liking for Mageia is coming from Mandriva. Mandriva is placed deep in my heart and Mageia seems to be the best successor of Mandriva.

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Jun 4th, '22, 16:09
by isadora
Well, of course like many Mandriva/Mandrake-addicts before you, they all love Mageia.
Enjoy the community and the distribution, and have magical times around. :)

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Jun 6th, '22, 18:20
by justjack
Hey, Jack here. In Oregon, USA. I've been using Mageia since Man... whatever went away. I simply hate M$. Now retired and am setting up a newer computer. My laptop's video card or LCD display died. Having all sorts of "fun" setting up this computer and need some help. Off to ask questions!

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Jun 6th, '22, 19:15
by isadora
Hello and welcome to the Mageia-community Jack!!!
Wish you great fun and success setting up your new computer.
I am sure you will find and have all assistance possible in our forum.
Hope you have magical times around!!!!

Re: Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

PostPosted: Oct 20th, '22, 14:54
by fennecrea
Hello,
I'm Zak, I'm a linux user for a while, I hate MS.
I like testing different distro on laptop (with touch screen) Actually I'm using Fedora.

The next distro that I'll test is Mageia 8-)

Originaly I'm a Marketing consultant and I support the open source softwares.

Nice to be here