User:Aleksanteri

Hello world, here's aleksanteri. &lt;insert a proper ingress here&gt;

=About me= I'm a Finnish 15-year old person who considers himself off-mainstream. I do not use Windows, I only touch it if I need to. I hate Microsoft in all ways possible and whoever knows me knows my hate to MS as well. I use Debian Linux as my primary operating system, I do (random) Tcl/Tk-apps during my freetime, my primary "project" is t2i. I tend to listen to unvocaled music, some of being module files, however I do listen to bands such as Poets of the Fall, Nightwish and Teräsbetoni if I get bored of the same tunes getting played all the time.

=Computer biography= I've been around with computers for quite a long time, however the most interesting parts to be told have happened just in the recent years.

Back in early 2005, I was still one of those n00bs that run the computer mainstream, I used Windows 98 and ran an old computer that was on the edge of dying. On summer 2005, I got a new computer with Windows XP and I transferred my stuff there. Life began to be a bit better.

My life got another bump in 2006 fall, when I was on my 8th class. It was that one day on the late September-October 2006 when during a tech work class, my classmate (or really, a groupmate as the guy was on another class) wanted to setup a Linux box and was talking to the class teacher. I was doing my stuff over there, working on a device of mine (links to Finnish Wikipedia), while listening to them. After the groupmate had finished talking, I went up to talk about it, and volunteered to test a Kubuntu installation CD that was thought to be corrupted.

Back home, I tried the CD and it turned out to really be corrupted. I then made a new live-CD as I really was intrigued about the Linux they were talking about. I then took a look in it and got attracted by the first of sight so I installed it to dualboot. I eventually began to use more Kubuntu than Windows, until I had started to use Kubuntu as my main OS rather than Windows. I then started to look around in the development things Linux provided, as I had been already been a novice web developer, knowing the basics of JavaScript, CSS, and PHP up to a point; I then found out of XAMPP and started using it.

However, my luck was not to last. In April 2007, my computer died for some odd reason, first GRUB did and I was forced to use a live-CD. Then, the whole computer just died, presumably the BIOS had been fatally damaged for some odd reason. After a few weeks later, I got my computer fixed but it was expensive: the mainboard had to be got new, meaning the case had to be renewed and so on. I could barely recognize it as mine when it come back. Luckily, my hard drive was not cleansed for some reason and I had (most of) my stuff back. However, I and my parents had mistaken Linux to be the cause of the destruction and I had to ask about 30 people to maul my doubts and get back to Linux.

It was around then when I was thinking of getting an Eggdrop IRC bot online. That was when I took a look on Tcl, and when I found that one attractive to me, I abandoned my tries to learn C properly, and rocketed off with this new choice.

The summer 2007 was essentially taking a deeper look into Linux's world. I tried different distributions, Fedora, Gentoo, Knoppix (yup I even installed it to my hard drive), and did six whole builds of LFS. However, I always got back into using Kubuntu. It seemed perfect for me.

In winter 2008, my worst nightmare came true; my computer died again, having exactly the same symptoms (screen black, no beeps, nothing). It was here when I and my parents decided to "trash" the computer (OK it's in fact currently on my floor, collecting dust). I then bought a new one with all my money, and to my shock, it came with Windows Vista (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). It was pure !@#%&.

As it seems, history repeats itself. I again asked about 30 people about the issue and then I installed Kubuntu. Once more. However, one day I got flamed by this when I stated I was using Kubuntu and I told them that the only reason I weren't using Debian was that it's software were out-of-date, and they told me that if I were using Debian Lenny/testing, the apps would be up to date. So that's the point when I made yet another Debian CD, installed it and now I'm using it for real.

So that's my story: how a total Windows-fan n00b switched over to the real OS :)

=Contact=
 * IRC (I'm on irc.freenode.net as aleksanteri)
 * My talk page