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[sebastienne]

My laptop is back from the dead, & running Kubuntu! Livejournal is being irritatingly slow, and it amuses me that Konqueror's inbuilt spellchecker (I assume that's what this is, making my words go red?) doesn't recognise the word "Kubuntu". Generally, however, I am open-source happy.

Hints & tips would be appreciated from Unix types; I'm not really as computer-savvy as I probably need to be to be doing this, but I learnt Windows by "ooh, I wonder what happens if I click here..", and I hope the same spirit will continue to serve me well.

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[knirirr.livejournal.com]

dyddgu asked me to comment here, in case I can be of any use. Possibly, given my job.
If you have Kubuntu it means that you have the distribution considered to be the most "user friendly" and the desktop that is most similar to Windows. Therefore, it should not be too difficult to adjust to it if you are used to the horrors of Redmond.

[osymandias.livejournal.com]

Well, no specific tips (though if your laptop's up to it, I've been playing around with Beryl, which does some rather cool effects.) but if you have any questions can attempt to field them.

Also, yay for moving to linux. Although I sit in the Gnome/Fedora camp myself, so am not sure about this KDE and Ubuntu business...

[(Anonymous)]

can't help so I send you hugs.
internet broke and I missed my auction :( so hugs for you.

[vass]

Yay Kubuntu!

I'm pretty new to Linux too (I'm using Debian.)

"ooh, I wonder what happens if I click here" works well, especially in conjunction with Google.

From the Control Centre you can make it *all* look different. And act differently.

Your package manager (mine's Synaptic, yours might be too, or it might be something else) is your friend. It can find more software than you knew existed, and will download it, unpack it, put it where you can find it, add it to the menu, and show you if there's a new version available.

KTorrent works faster than Azureus and has all the same functions. Galaga and KBounce are two extremely addictive games. I prefer Firefox (well, the GNUzilla clone, Iceweasel) to Konqueror, but your web-browser preference may vary.

[vass]

Oh, and: Amarok is better than iTunes. And I *like* iTunes. It's like if iTunes and Azureus mated and had beautiful, customisable, *fast* babies.

[half-of-monty.livejournal.com]

as well as `clicking here', which is definitely the way to go, you want to start entering the wonderful world of the command line. Eventually you will be able to use this to do lots of things much faster than faffing around with the mouse. (To start with you will find it confusing and that it demands a lot of precision). Google will tell you what to try first, I can't really remember.

The joy of ubuntu (and prob most modern linux) is you don't really need to use the command line at all - but you still can.