> You guys are so far ahead of me, I only understand about .01 percent of what
> I read. I'm 55 and always used DOS/Windows. I have moaned about the loss
> of the ability to tweak my computer as I pleased ever since Windows came
May I first say -- welcome to an exciting adventure with your computer. :)
Don't take that the wrong way, of course -- Linux can be daunting but it
can be very rewarding as you become part of a new revolution in
desktop computing.
It's my opinion is that if you are fairly well versed and comfortable at the
command line with DOS you will have an easier time learning much of the
Unix that is an integral part of Linux. The commands will pretty much have
different names ('ls' instead of 'dir', for example) and will have many
more options. For instance, you can remove more than one file at a time with
Unix/Linux 'rm'; the equivalent of DOS 'del' or 'erase', which only takes
one filename.
If you're not so comfortable at the prompt, and you tend to use Windows as
a program/file manager, then it could be a little bit more complicated.
However, there are several (as opposed to one, with Windows) ways of
presenting a usable GUI on Linux. The hardest part of this is probably
getting X (the Linux graphical 'environment') running on your system.
But once this hurdle is crossed, you have plenty of ways to do things, and
you'll still be able to access the command line and run programs and do
whatever at that command line.
Others have recommended things like tkdesk, but you may find KDE fairly
useful. It's a GUI environment/window manager which integrates a whole slew
of neat things like drag & drop, GUI filemanager like Explorer. It's in
some respects reminiscent of a Mac, but without all the limitations that
a Mac comes with.
> out. I've never even used Unix before. Do you suppose I'm biting off more
> than I can chew to try to learn such a DIFFERENT operating system at my age?
If you don't already have a book on Linux per se, there are a good number of
Unix books out there.
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