I've had a computer since the age of four and like most people was introduced to Windows ... 98. Back then I mainly used the computer for gaming and such until I hit high school. In high school I started to learn how to write my own games and software using Microsoft .NET technologies. However my computer science teacher in high school introduced me to the concept of Linux so back then I tried Ubuntu 8.04. My dad, didn't like me messing with other OSs so he ended up removing it and telling me there is more money to be made with Microsoft technology.
However now i'm no longer living with my parents and about 2 years ago when Windows 8 pretty much launched, I played around with it and when I saw the direction Microsoft was moving with their Operating System I was forced to consider two options - buy a Mac, or find a linux distro I like. So I tried Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint along with all of the popular desktop environments. I kinda didn't find comfort with the RPM based distros for package management and hunting down software seemed a bit more tedius than Debian based distros. So for about a year I was on Ubuntu for at the time when I tried Linux Mint, I didn't find myself comfortable with it.... until about a month ago I got so fed up with the crash dialogs popping up on the LTS release that I decided to force myself to find comfort with linux mint. So I downloaded the Cinammon version of 17.1 64 bit and I started to release i liked that cinnamon is more customizable than Unity. I uploaded a picture of my desktop.
I do love to program but learning GTK# in MonoDevelop is kindof annoying. I am trying to get the Panels to act more like the Panels from WinForms but its not working out.
A link to my layout configuration can be found http://postimg.org/image/njspp130h/ since it was too big to upload.
I also bought some Linux Mint stickers for my laptop to make it look "Linux Branded"
