i am a brand new Linux user and i have a million questions and many no answers.. so here i go..
My fisrt question i guess is i have something thats called ubuntu.. is that the same thing as linux?? im not sure..
My main question however is how do i install things on linux? do i need to download something else.. i am a previous windows user.. and to me it appears that EVERYTHINGis for windows i cant instal any application from the internet onto my computer.. im missing codecs.. or something about activex... can anyone help me??
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Jump to Postgood questions.
Linux is actually just a kernel. Ubuntu is called a distribution of linux. It comes with the linux kernel, a desktop environment and many applications for you to use. There are many different "distros" some of them include debian, gentoo, fedora, Suse, mepis, etc. There are hundreds.…
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