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[Andre Hugo]

Miles,

I have made the switch from windows to mac about 4 years ago and have
switch completely to ubuntu (work and home) about 6 months ago.

I find listening to the goinglinux podcast very informative and I am
still listing to the podcast currently. The podcast is for newbies and
switches.

Go to www.goinglinux.com

Hope this will help you to climb the learning curve faster.

Regards
Andre

On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 08:44 +0200, miles sharpe wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 12:55 +0200, Raoul Snyman wrote:
> > Hi Miles,
> > 
> > On Sunday 08 November 2009 05:32:59 miles sharpe wrote:
> > > Thanks Brenton.  I have just typed sudo aptitude install xchat
> > > it did it's thing but where has it gone to. or has it taken over the
> > > other xchat in applications internet xchat irc
> > 
> > It probably replace the other one.
> > 
> > > As you must have gathered by now I am quite stupid when it comes to pc's
> > > and ubuntu.  Also I thinking of trying to get an alternate 9.10 cd to
> > > upgrade my 9.04 ubuntu. how does everyone feel about Kubuntu . Will it
> > > be easier than ubuntu and is there much extra to learn then.
> > 
> > I would recommend you stick to Ubuntu. Kubuntu's interface is very different 
> > to Ubuntu's, and it comes with it's own set of programs instead of the ones 
> > you find in Ubuntu. Also, Ubuntu is more well known than Kubuntu, so you'll 
> > get a lot more help for Ubuntu than you will for Kubuntu.
> > 
> > > I'm like in wonderland with all this help from so many people who
> > > actually want to help.
> > 
> > Glad to help!
> > 
> > -- 
> > Raoul Snyman, B.Tech IT (Software Engineering)
> > Saturn Laboratories
> > m: 082 550 3754
> > e: raoul.snyman at saturnlaboratories.co.za 
> > w: www.saturnlaboratories.co.za 
> > b: blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za
> > 
> 
> Hi Raoul.
> 
> I will follow your advice and stick to ubuntu.
> All my life I tried to make things work just a bit better but I think
> with the brain injury I must accept that I can't anymore and learn to
> rely on others who's brains still work. My 9.04 is working great so now
> I am wondering what would be the advantage of upgrading to 9.10.
> I know I do stupid things like trying to chat to Maaz. I hope all the
> guys don't look down at me and say "look at that bloody fool."
> I know I appear to ask dof things at times. It is not on purpose I
> promise. On the chat the other avy some one said they had played Age of
> Empires 2 using wine so I installed wine but am too dof to understand
> what is actually going on and how to get the game to work.
> It appears to open a virtual desktop? for the other os.
> Must I then install the game to that. I am sure if I can get my ubuntu
> to work with those types of games I will get my sister to change to
> ubuntu as well. And am working at getting my facebook friends to swop
> over too. But people are bang of new things unless you can prove it is
> better. Have a good week. See you on xchat
> Regards
> Miles
> 
>