Installed Kubuntu. Now what?

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Hi,

In the December holidays, my house got flooded and the pc was wrecked (according to the insurance guy.) After buying a new pc, mostly on the insurance companies rands, I decided to try and salvage my files from the old computers hdd. Lo and behold, as far as I can tell all that was wrong was the boot sector on the hdd- everything else works fine but can't boot into windows.

So, I saved all the files, formatted the drive and installed Kubuntu. Easy as pie. Internet worked as soon as i plugged in the lan, etc..

Question is what do i do with it? I have no knowledge of linux commands. I am slowly learning how things work though: downloaded firefox, realised there was no exe! and eventually discovered how adept works.

What I want is to know whats going on, how to do things properly, where to place different types of files, where to find downloaded files, wtf all these file extensions mean, how to use the Konsole ande on and on and on.

Where should i start? If anyone can recommend books or websites or approaches that might be useful I will be very very grateful.

Im running Feisty Fawn if thats of any relevance- arrived in the post yesterday.
 
Welcome to the world of pain that is linux.

Well, at least it is educational. Basically, dont rush out trying to learn it. You will learn as you go.
And you should have rather installed Ubuntu. Much easier to use.

And now wait for your first kernal panic, or the ever fun, "X Keeps Crashing"
 
/home/username is like "My Documents" it's safe to store all your files there
/etc/ is where most of the configuration files are (similar to "Windows" and "Program Files" directories) but just about everything can be done through the GUI now so you won't need to edit these at all.
Do a google search for basic linux commands, then read through them and print them out, it'll give you some idea of what you can do from the console.
If you get bored you could search for the opensource versions of the windows software that you had, and try install it and get it working.
 
Used Linux for over 6 years, and all I can remember is a couple of commands

ls (same as dir in windows)
ln -s (See what processes/apps are running)
killall -9 procid (Kill a process)
rm -rf (delete a file/folder and all its contents)
cd.. (Go back a directory)
./appname (runs appname)
 
Dja,

I got 2k and ubuntu installed, and i started out on ubuntu with high blood pressure, sore knuckles (from punching my moniter in anger at ubuntu, lol), rmore high blood pressure, more sore knuckles, and eventually i kinda sorted the basics so now i'm fine.
 
I've been using linux at home and work for about 5 years now - my wife manages to use it daily with no problems (pertty much just email/chat, browsing and spreadsheets and word processing)

Even if you've installed kubuntu this documentation will be mostly relevant: https://help.ubuntu.com/

Almost all your software can be installed with synaptic/adept. Be sure to enable the universe/multiverse repositories if you want enhanced software and functionality.
 
JStrike, ln -s makes symlinks (make a file appear in more than one place at the same time, as if by magic :-) ). To see what processes are running and who's running them:

ps auxf
 
SuperAntMD, what kinda stuff do you expect to do with your Linux box? Linux is good for some things and less good for others. Just like Windows.
 
As koffiejunkie says what is it that you want to do?

For instance you should have been able to install firefox through synaptic. or an apt-get install firefox.

Your best bet for any specific questions you have is to do a search on the ubuntu forums.
 
BobbyMac: no pain no gain. Learning to use just about anything takes effort. Yes, Windows too.

We still don't know what SuperAntMD was hoping to do with the box. It may have required hardly any effort.
 
Installed (K)Ubuntu, now uninstall it

My experience with Ubuntu / Linux, fwiw:
1. Old laptop died, decided to go with Linux on the new one because of experience with my Centos server at home.
2. Bought kick@ss new Acer. Told them to keep the Vista. Two partitions, XP on one.
3. Tried installing latest Fedora on the other partition. Gave up after wifi, webcam and sound was still unusable after 2 weeks of intermittent trying (I have a day job too)
4. Tried Ubuntu. At least the sound worked after a few hours.
3 weeks later:
Wifi and LAN work at home, nowhere else (at least not without a lot of tinkering every time). At least I managed to get the 3G card working thanks to these forums.
Mousepad is extremely sensitive, I keep on clicking things on mouseover. Kubuntu is better and the Synaptics driver helps, but still not right.
Beryl: No joy for as long as the ATI graphics card is not properly supported. Any attempt to hack things myself just ends up with X crashing.
Still can't play a DVD on the machine, howto's notwithstanding.
System logs: Something keeps complaining about being unable to switch on a fan (!)
Fingerprint reader: No comment.

I intend rededicating the second partition to the spawn of Redmond, and moving on to Vista after SP1. The home server does a brilliant job on Centos, but I cannot see myself using Linux on a laptop anytime soon.

Maybe I'll try again next year.
 
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