Re: kubuntu - my review
Nowadays, you can do almost everything from the GUI, but it's often easier (and, ocasiionally only possible) to do some things from the Command Line. You can pick up using the command line by osmosis (e.g. start a konsole) and run the command "man <command>" for every command that you see someone recommend), but it's easier to learn from a book or a course.
You can download the Kubuntu package "rutebook", which will install a copy of the book "The Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition" by Paul Sheer into the directory /usr/share/doc/rutebook/html/. Aside from an irrational preference for Vi rather than Emacs (which Mark Shuttleworth shares), this is a very good book. Or you can buy the dead tree version of the Rute book, "Running Linux" by Welsh, Dallheimer and Kaufman (or some sub or superset, thereof), or "How Linux Works" by Brian Ward. Any of the three will repay your effort and start you on the road to gurudom.
Nowadays, you can do almost everything from the GUI, but it's often easier (and, ocasiionally only possible) to do some things from the Command Line. You can pick up using the command line by osmosis (e.g. start a konsole) and run the command "man <command>" for every command that you see someone recommend), but it's easier to learn from a book or a course.
You can download the Kubuntu package "rutebook", which will install a copy of the book "The Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition" by Paul Sheer into the directory /usr/share/doc/rutebook/html/. Aside from an irrational preference for Vi rather than Emacs (which Mark Shuttleworth shares), this is a very good book. Or you can buy the dead tree version of the Rute book, "Running Linux" by Welsh, Dallheimer and Kaufman (or some sub or superset, thereof), or "How Linux Works" by Brian Ward. Any of the three will repay your effort and start you on the road to gurudom.
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