My name is Stefan Berge, I live in Gothenburg, Sweden. Since a few decades I and my wife run a private company (valutronic.com and valutronic.se) producing high quality DIY loudspeakers and amplifiers that we sell to audiophiles, recording studios and other customers around the world. In our company we use dozens of different programs like cad, HTML, FTP, graphics, video and sound sofware. We started using computers in the early 1980´s just before the first PC:s appeared. After a few years we bought our first PC (two floppy disks and DOS operating system) and later we merged to Windows. In c:a 2002 - 2003 I tested Linux Redhat, dual boot with my Windows XP. But it was very primitive and difficult to use, so I uninstalled it. The question "Erase MBR?" was shown, and there was no explanation what it meant. I took a chance and answered Yes. When restarting the harddisk was dead. No more Linux for me! I thought. But I am a curious guy, so in 2005 I tested SUSE Linux and Ubuntu on one of our computers anyhow, and they both worked! But there were lots of hardware compatibility issues, so on our company computer we kept using Windows XP. However, despite using a very efficient antivirus software, in 2008 a virus almost wiped the harddisk of the office computer clean. By then Ubuntu had matured, so from then on we used Ubuntu (2D desktop) on all our computers. Because of a hardware issue, when the 2D desktop was removed (14.04???) we coult not use Ubuntu anymore. Which was good, because I had to test other "flavours" and found my absolute favourite: Lubuntu. Fast, stable, and much easier to configure as I personaly want it to be. The Ubuntu 18.04 (Gnome desktop) works, but even if Ubuntu looks nice, I stick to Lubuntu. It is faster, more easy to personalize, and it does not suffer from the not-showing-all-installed-software-issue which forces me to search for some of my software to be able to find and launch them in Ubuntu. They are all in the program list in Lubuntu and can be copied to the program laucher at the bottom of the screen (or where you prefer to have it). After some practise this is easy.

So, this is who I am and my experience from Linux. If you have an interest in DIY Hi-Fi speakers or would like to build a real reference quality power amplifier (very easy to build), you are welcome to visit my company sites, valutronic.com (english) or valutronic.se (swedish).