Greetings from the Middle of Know-Where!

[Dr_Chroot]

Hello fellow roasters! It was wisely recommended that I introduce myself (I don't know why I didn't think about it XD), so I hope I found the right place :D

My journey to the one true OS:
Although I tinkered with Red Hat way back in the time before time and ran a file sharing server off of OpenBSD during the mid-2000's, I really never ventured out of Microsoft's plebian madness until the Computer Electronics Show - 2011 in Las Vegas. Ah yes, the memories! I bought Ubuntu 10.04 on CD from a vendor there (can't remember if it was an official Canonical booth or not) and installed it on my Thinkpad whilst my nerdy buddies were downstairs in the Aliante Casino losing all of their cash :) Over the next couple of years I distro-hopped amongst OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, CentOS, Mint, etc. before stumbling across the /r/unixporn subreddit. It was then that my eyes were opened! I abandoned KDE and GNOME in search of the elusive riced WM. I spent a while on Arch with AwesomeWM, then later on Lubuntu. It was then that I found LinuxBBQ listed on the /g/wiki Since then I have spiraled into neckbeardy ways, starting with the refinement of Shuttleworth and now I find myself hunched over a crappy battlestation, madly typing on a mechanical keyboard (IBM Model M homage) whilst watching Anime on one monitor muttering about Gentoo or Debian and critiquing the plebian's desktops scrots. (What has /g/ done to me!?)

Concerning BBQ
Anywho, with my Disneyish story finished, to the important part ;) I downloaded "Buffalo" and "Cream" to get a taste of several WM and am at the moment downloading the Spring 2014 snapshot! I'm trying to decide whether or not to use with tmux or xmonad, though... Does tmux have a large learning curve? Most importantly, will my neckbeard grow thicker?

Anywho, to 4chan I go until my download is finished (｡◝‿◜｡)

[dkeg]

great intro Dr_Chroot. Glad to have you aboard.

Buffalo is a good choice.

Have fun. With regards to your conundrum, you can have both. One use-case could be to utilize tmux for mainly outside X, else you can use xmonad. The learning curve with tmux is not very big. I'm sure you'll be fine. There's some config's around here, and google with help too. What's the worst that can happen.

[gutterslob]

tmux is the best thing since toast. It's as stable as a TT rider, as light as bubble-wrap, and you don't have to learn Urdu to configure it like with that other console multiplexer made by the wildebeest people.

xmonad is a bit more complicated, but at least it uses Haskell, a sane language (unlike fuckin Lua). You'll need to get a compiler made by people who eat deep-fried Mars bars if you wanna do anything ultra-ricey with it though.

Welcome, btw.

[bones]

Welcome to the grill, Dr_Chroot.

[Alad]

Good to have you, /b/ro. Err... :)

[machinebacon]

Welcome to the grill and thank you for the introchickention, err introducktion.

Anyone using the M model is my bestest friend and will enjoy free mutual handjobs until the glans is on fire. And anyone seriously considering installing xmonad with the whole haskell library catapults himself right on the top of Grillerwatch, the most important website that "brings computing back to the fun".

And yes of course tmux is better than Ubuntu. It is not hard to learn, at least not as hard as haskell :D

Enjoy your time and the grill :)

[franksinistra]

welcome to the Q chroot!

if you prefer huge thick fuzzy neckbeards though, you could always give stumpwm a spin

[DebianJoe]

Xmonad is an excuse to know Haskell.
Also, welcome. :)

[rhowaldt]

welcome to the grill, doctor. no funny business from me this time ;)

[GekkoP]

Welcome chrooter.

[elixir]

Welcome to the grill Dr_Chroot. What a fantastic intro you have had. Happy grilling!

[machinebacon]

Tip from hell: in case of Spring, just simply keep it as it is and tmux your life.

[ivanovnegro]

Very nice intro Dr. Chroot, welcome!

[RandomCharacter]

Welcome to the grill, Dr_Chroot.

Tim

[vic]

I do not know anything about how thick neckbeard you get by grilling Dr Chroot, so welcome to the BBQ, and let the roast make your toast...or something.

[wuxmedia]

beinvenue Doc.
using tmux is a definite good few weeks of beardgrowth.