Newbie Install Advice

[Christopher Lees]

Glad your experiences so far are good! Today I visited a guy who
recently installed Ubuntu - pretty good with computer hardware, but not
very good with software. He installed and set up the system without much
help at all, and made a lot of the same comments as you.

Installing software is very different in Linux. Since you're on 64-bit,
it will be a bit different again still, but you can find a lot of great
programs in the repositories (try Add/Remove Applications or Synaptic
Package Manager) which will save mucking about.

Linux is actually blessed with some pretty good deathmatch-style games;
I showed my friend Nexuiz, and when I left he was busily playing it on
his 42-inch plasma TV with surround sound amp :-) Just don't be afraid
to try something that's in the repositories, you'll find a lot of gems
and you'll probably enjoy a lot of it!


On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 01:03 +0100, Trias wrote:
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 01:16:52 +0930
> From: Trias <aussietrias at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Newbie Install Advice
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
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> I'll have to figure out how to install stuff soon.  Fortunately firefox is
> also my usual windows browser.  I have only briefly looked at openoffice
> before but it was quite good then.  Everything else is a mystery to me.  I
> play games a fair bit I know linux is weak in this area but perhaps there is
> something if any of you could help.