Greetings all. I’m not new by any means. I’ve been using Linux since around 95. I went all Linux in 2000 and haven’t looked back. I moved to Ubuntu as my primary distro around 10 to 12 years ago, and gravitated to Studio soon as I discovered it.
I would first like to compliment the Ubuntu Studio team on an excellent distro spin. I am especially impressed with how Studio has tamed KDE and made it usable on older hardware. Kbuntu on the same hardware is slow and creaky.
I am a musician, writer and dabble in video creation as well as occasionally having to edit graphic files from time to time. I will be getting heavy into video creation this year. So I love having most of the tools I need already part of the default distro.
I will be looking for ways to help out with distro support. I was part of the Fedora documentation team for a couple years, and documentation team on a few other OSS projects. I am a former professional developer, but I hate working with the semi-colon languages. So I am probably not much help as a coder. I have also earned my living as a DBA and sysadmin at times. I can test to an extent, just not on a machine I’m actually using for real work. It takes me way too long to get a machine where I like it to mess with setting it up over and over again.
That’s why I only use LTS distros. I’ve never once had an upgrade on a desktop I was actually using succeed. Servers I very rarely have an issue with an upgrade. A machine I only check email and surf on, I can upgrade those. A machine I actually use forget it. Not once in the 30 years I’ve been using Linux starting with Slackware and Redhat, and dozens of other distros and versions of those distros has an upgrade worked on a machine I actually use.
I’m also happy too collaborate with other musicians out there. I play guitar and bass. When I say bass I mean as an actual bass player, not a guitar player faking it on the bass. I’ve written most or all of the set in several bands I played in and even paid the mortgage and supported children from gigging proceeds in one band where I wrote the music to all of our songs. An occasional decent set of lyrics falls out of me, but it’s not a common occurrence. I can write a fiction/fantasy/sci-fi/horror novel, movie script, a technical document, hell even TV commercials. Song lyrics not so much. If you ask me why I’ll use a lot of words to tell you hell if I know why.
I work in Rock, Metal that doesn’t use that throat cancer barking thing or Rap. Long as the singer is actually singing I’m good with most Rock/Metal genres. I also do a bit of Folk, Blues, electronic experimental and am interested in some New Age stuff as well.
If there are any aspiring movie producers/directors in the crowd. I’m up for writing scripts and or doing soundtracks. No idea if I can act or not, but if you have a part for an old ugly biker with a foul disposition I’m your man.
I’m up for writing for social media channels also. Give me a shout on the topic areas. If I have expertise in those topics we might be able to team up. I am a prolific writer, but I struggle with video creation and I’m old, ugly and mean lol. So it would be better if somebody else’s face was the face of the effort. Ideally somebody great with the graphics and being the face but not so strong on the research and writing would make a perfect teammate for social media content.
As a side note I do have a Masters and ride a Harley among my many interests outside of Geekdom. I am as handy with an angle grinder and chainsaw as I am with a trackball. Now if I can just figure out how to install Linux on a chainsaw lol.
I know not many people actually read these intro posts, but I had fun writing this, hope you enjoyed reading it.