What's a "Desktop?"

[bruce]

I admit I was over-reacting to something that looks to me more like what 
I expect from microsoft windows than Linux.  

With Red Hat, when I want to save a kwrite file I hit save and it shows 
me a little window with the name of a directory and some or all of the 
files in the directory and a space for me to write a filename in.  If 
that isn't the directory I want, then I go from there to where I want 
and save the file.

With Kubuntu, it gives me a selection of home, desktop and filesystem.  
The file is already on my "desktop", I associate the word "home" with 
the directory /home, and "filesystem" means reiserFS or ext3.

Nevermind.  I'm just frustrated  after six weeks of trying to set up a 
new box.
bruce

On Friday 13 January 2006 14:11, Aaron Kiley wrote:
> sorry did not get this, if you want to get rid of your desktop, then
> your saying you dont want to use a GUI? you want to use the CLI?
>
> Also filesystem is what sorts you files out etc.... so you you get
> rid of that then you have a unusable HD?
>
> or have i misread?
>
> On 13/01/06, bruce <bbales at cox.net> wrote:
> > I keep running into "desktop", "filesystem." and "Home' (the latter
> > apparently meaning "/home/bruce") when I am trying to save a file. 
> > I am guessing that microsoft windows uses such terms, but why is it
> > suddenly in my Linux box?
> >
> > Can I get rid of that somehow?
> > bruce
> >
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