Hi Shane.

A fellow Irishman here.

I remember well, my first time discovering GNU/Linux. I started in 2008 with my first actual install on a HDD. It was Ubuntu 7.10 with the glorious GNOME2 DE. I later switched to Linux Mint and eventually settled with Debian Stable.

When I hear the term, 'Stranded Output', I picture a guy sitting at a computer terminal with green text on a black background and he's stranded on a remove planet.

Happy computing! :-)