[Kde-women]Re: SPAM: kde-women digest, Vol 1 #79 - 1 msg

[Sallie Krebs]

On Saturday 02 March 2002 05:02, kde-women-request@mail.kde.org wrote:

>    1. Who are you? (Eva Brucherseifer)
...
> The email address look really interesting... so what about doing a
> round of introductions? Who are you? How did you find this list? How
> long have you been subsribed? Why are you subscribed? Where do you
> come from? How old are you (ok, forget about this one ;-)? Do you
> work in IT? What is your profession? Are you a student? What OS do
> you mainly use? How did you learn Linux/KDE? Do you use KDE on a
> daily basis? Do you miss something in KDE? ...lot's of questions.

Hi! I'm Sallie Krebs, from Illinois (USA), *way* too old (51)

I've been subscribed from day one... I think I was contacted by someone 
in IRC about joining the list, but I don't remember who it was now. The 
reason I subscribed was to learn more about KDE, and hopefully to 
participate and share some of my experiences with others. 
Unfortunately- due to work and other commitments- I haven't had time to 
really participate in any of the lists I've joined, which include 
several for Kapital products I've purchased plus Progeny (now, 
unfortunately, defunct.)

I work at the Post Office as an electronics technician- I maintain and 
repair mail processing equipment, computers, etc. 

I've been running Linux for about 4 years now- Debian for most of that 
time. I think the first distro I tried was Caldera which introduced me 
to KDE. I tried Gnome a couple of times, but found that KDE was much 
easier to use and has far more functionality. I haven't tried Gnome in 
over a year now, though. I *do* love having a choice and will probably 
do more experimenting with different desktops when I have more time- 
maybe in 4 years when I will, hopefully, retire :)

Do I miss something in KDE? That's hard to answer... It's been about a 
year and a half since I had windoze installed and in use even on a part 
time basis. I do have to use it at work, however, and am constantly 
cursing the lack of functionality that I take for granted in Linux/KDE. 
I keep hearing that Linux isn't ready for the desktop... HUH? It 
certainly has everything I need, and more! Oh, well, there is one 
thing- but it's a Konqueror problem, not KDE. I can't do my online 
banking using Konq, so I have to use Mozilla. I read an online 
discussion about the problem- it has something to do with Java. Overall 
though, KDE is spectacular!

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Sallie - aka: TuxGal
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