I'am a Newbie in your community. 

I come from Germany. Forgive bad english, I never use it outside the school.

50 years old and pensioner without IT background. I had several physical Job's like (storekeeper, detergency), because i had no industrial training.

I bought my 1. computer 2001. After 2 month I switched from windows xp to Linux (Suse). Later to debian. `lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 (jessie)
Release:	8.6
Codename:	jessie
`
The most time I was learning by doing and out books. Then I discovered internet. I'm a late bloomer :D 

The most time I am active in a german Ubuntu-Forum. 

I come here for learning and to train my brain. I am a stroke patient and I think the best way to train is to solve Problems and to try learn more. 

I hope I have not written any funny stuff. Leo.org is not always helpful

greeting bahamut