New to Linux

[Vortеx]

Hi Tretarn,

On no account in synaptic do a search for Frozen Bubble or dare to install it, much too dangerous.....

Frozen Bubbles?
Oh no!

[dabutech]

Hi,
I just want to make a little contribution to your Linux transition. To help you better understand the file system,I highly recommend that you take a look at the INtorduction to Linux guide by MAchtelt Garrel in the Linux Documentation Project at http://tldp.org/guides.html
Again Welcome to PCLinuxOS

Michel

[The Chief]

Another thing you need to look at is:  Linux is NOT Windows!

Read it here:  http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

[parnote]

Another thing you need to look at is:  Linux is NOT Windows!

Read it here:  http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

To supplement the above link provided by "The Chief," be sure to check out this article in The PCLinuxOS Magazine.

parnote

[alphaace]

At the risk of sounding heretical, use the tool that best fits you and the situation you need it for.

When I travel, I take a macbook pro. It's rock-solid, never crashes on me, and if the hardware breaks (happened once), there's a mac store pretty much in every major US city and they will fix it pronto. (plus OS X is built on unix so it's pretty stable).

When I do research (I'm a grad student)/code something/check email/browse web/watch movies/etc, I inevitably use pclos. My computer at home that's always running is pclos and it pretty much handles all my data management.

If I want to play a game, then usually it's windows. Every once in a very very long while I need to run a windows program so I use it then too. Wine is great when it works, but usually not worth the headache when it doesn't. Also, if you want to run play blurays, then it's windows. Netflix: Mac or Windows (though there is a rumor that a linux client will be there eventually).

Just like there is no one tool that fixes everything that you want to fix, there isn't one operating system that does everything that you ever want to do. That's probably a good thing because you want your operating system to do the things you need it to do very well, rather than do all possible things not so well.

All that being said, unless you're a serious gamer (in which case windows might be preferred), pclos does a whole bunch of stuff most people usually need very well. And most of them it does just as well or better than windows. And it's free. Plus, as you learn to use it, you'll also learn more about computers in general which is never a bad thing.

Hope that helps!