Migrating from WinXP Pro to Ubuntu 10.10

[Richard Owlett]

Tony Pursell wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 19:17 +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 11:48 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
[SNIP]
>>
>> fireup a command line console and type "sudo synaptic" and search what
>> you need....
>>
>
> Shouldn't we be advising people to use Software centre these days?

To which Jordon Bedwell replied:
>
> You part the software centre brigade?
>

As the OP, I appreciate knowing what breath of choices exist. My 
goal is advancing to command line -- back to where I was with 
CPM80. But in the interest of immediately "getting things done", 
is "Software centre" a GUI?