Okay yes, that's me.  Hey, geeks aren't supposed to be cute.  It's evolution.  I used to be a party girl back in the day but then I developed some health problems that kept me house-bound a lot and I ended up turning geek.  Most of my friends are still in shock. 

So my story?  One day, I was working in 'Media Player' in Windows when it crashed (for about the 10th time that day) and I just got sick and tired of having to open up the Task Manager and play find and shut down the process and maybe it will in 10 minutes...ugh..I thought there had to be something better, so I looked it up....and found something better.

So I started using Linux in March of 08; Debian was the distro that started it all.  Yes, I am still a newbie.  I am a more advanced newbie who got really tired of trying to find out the answers to reasonably simple questions in a million different places.   That is not a newbie friendly process and let's face it; the goal is to get as many people using open-source software as possible to bring down the monopoly that Microsoft has inflicted upon the masses.