User:Sydsb
Introduction and Biography
Hi,
I'm Syds a 37 year old Dutch guy who 2 years ago moved back to Groningen in the North of the Netherlands with my wife and 2 girls.
I'm a freelance Financial Controller and try to help companies in improving their reporting to the board and other stakeholders (i.e. banks/ shareholders/ etc.).
Workwise i'm pretty much stuck on Microsoft Office (mainly Excel) and Windows but personally I really prefer using Linux/GNU distro's.
at the end of secondary school (around 2001/2004) I played around with SuSE for a little bit and then started using Ubuntu. However for work i was so stuck on Windows that my private computing stayed behind in a way until about 3 years ago when i started using Linus more full time again. Ubuntu had always been more of a distro that works out of the box and is supported by almost every application developer. However the setup is just not really how i like to run my computer. So after a small detour with some other distro's I finally landed on openSUSE. I love that openSUSE is one of the oldest distro's around and actually has European roots as well. And I've been using openSUSE MicroOS Desktop for more than 2 years now exclusively on my personal computers.
I've always considered myself first European and then Dutch. During my student years i was part of the board of AEGEE-Groningen (the local board of the European student association AEGEE.org) and started my career at Mazars (an audit firm) which at the time had the slogan "Audit with a European vision"
Regarding computers I've always understood that you just need to click different buttons to find out how they work. And I have maintained my own mailserver, home-server and a matrix.org server. I've always been playing with different servers and services.
Over the last 2 years was a part of the Board of openSUSE as the Treasurer.