@Jivings I believe the FAQQ states that general linux questions are off topic. I also did not want to mifgrate because it has been asked reepeatedly and would have only been flagged as a dupe.
@Jivings your choice of phrase "served my time" made me chuckle "served my time" sounds like you just got paroled from prison ...in a former life I was an altar boy for a prison chaplin