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Simon Quigley

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Wisconsin, USA

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Central Daylight Time (UTC−5:00)

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sqawesome99 AT gmail DOT com

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tsimonq2 on Freenode, GeekShed, OFTC, GameSurge, EFNet, QuakeNet

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Q/A

What do you do for (L)Ubuntu?

Right now I am doing QA, but I might move into bug triage soon.

I will be the contact for the Ubuntu Wisconsin LoCo Team.

When/how did you first get into computers/Linux?

I got into computers around the age of nine. I was intrigued by the fact that everything on your computer was coded by someone. I started with Windows XP on a family computer. I would do average kids stuff(PBS Kids, games, etc.), but I was still intrigued. After a while, I started tinkering. I would take the case off of the computer and see what was inside(although I knew nothing about it, it intrigued me).

One of my family friends showed me how to tweak some settings, and off I went. I would tweak the settings, the registry, the clock speeds, the BIOS settings, everything that could be tweaked. I would use a computer, then less than a month later my parents would have to do a reinstall of Windows. At one point I didn't have a computer for about a year just because I would tinker on it.

This brings me to September 2014. I was just going into 7th grade. Our school uses technology a lot, so my mother bought our family a really old computer($100 on Facebook) with Windows 7 Home Premium on it. To see the terrible specs, take a look above. I ended up breaking it on Christmas because I accidentally set an Avast startup scan as well as a chdsk scan at the same time. When I rebooted, it caused some trouble. I just ended up leaving it. I was so sad that I broke yet another computer. The same family friend told me around February, "You know enough about computers. Stop complaining and just fix it." I had an idea. A little ways back, I couldn't get Fedora installed for the life of me(I didn't understand Linux yet, that there were distros). So I did some research on a library computer and I found it. Ubuntu. And it was free. The family friend gave me an Ubuntu CD(that he burned himself) that he had because in school(college, he went back to school) he had to learn how to install it(he still uses Windows). I fired it up, installed it and started learning. I found that I learned so much more with Ubuntu than with Windows. I could customize more as well. It was just a little slow.

I previously had burned myself a Lubuntu CD, but I didn't work with it at all. I went over to a friends house after I accidentally grabbed it, and I showed him(he has it dual-booted with Windows to this day), but I personally liked the interface a lot more. I installed it on my computer, and here I am today.

Where do you hide on the internet?

I am usually on #phillw, ##tsimonq2, and #lubuntu-offtopic as well as other Ubuntu support channels on Freenode.

Google Hangouts.

Reddit.

Twitter.

Google+(less often then the other ones Wink ;) ).

Email.

Google.

Testimonials

If you want to vouch for my sustained contribution or if you have something nice to say about me, write it below! Wink ;)

tsimonq2 (last edited 2022-11-30 01:03:57 by tsimonq2)