I need to learn Linux, specifically ubuntu - what are some good sites to

[truedelphi]

visit where I can learn everything I need to know?

[jtuck004]

1. The best way to learn is to use it. Documentation has always been a weak point

with most of this stuff, but when you run into something you can always google it.

There are lots of tutorials - I suspect the https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=ubuntu+tutorial
Many, however, are out of date or for other versions, so often ones needs to just take bits and pieces.

Also, built in to most of the installs I've had lately you can select a chat program from the menu - in my case Hexchat - which connects you to an IRC channel where you can ask questions.

If you have a computer connected to a network, it will typically install and restart ready to work.

[truedelphi]

2. Thank you for the tips. I believe in trying stuff and hoping I learn that way.

Just as you are saying.

But here is where I am stumped - I did figure out where the "Software Center" is, but I am not sure how to install. Programs are there, with icons and explanations, but I don't see any way to click and get them downloaded to my computer.

Any hints?

[jtuck004]

3. I run a different version of Linux, but in looking at

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#Main_window

Does that look like yours, under the heading of Main Window? Looks like a "Search" function appears when you are in a window that has one, and I suspect you could select from there.

I've got one on Mint 17 that says "Software Manager", looks slightly easier to search and install from - you may have that, or not. I don't know all the features of any of these versions, but there are likely at least a couple ways to install things.

Also, on my version there is an "exclamation point" that appears when an update is available, down at the bottom of my screen. I click on that, enter a password, and tell it to install the most needed updates.

I didn't really answer your question, but I bet we can figure it out if we keep trying.

[truedelphi]

6. Thanks for the reply. I am still poking around and finally found out how to

download Gimp. I think the reason that the other software did not download was that they were simply descriptions and not the actual product.

Gimp actually had a decently noticeable "download" button.

Anyway, I am hoping that I did the right thing in dealing with ubuntu. Right now I am hearing that most people these days utilize "Mint."

What was yr reason for choosing Mint?

[jtuck004]

9. "...reason" > I got 3 laptops, installed different flavors, and after a process of

discarding this or that mint came to be the one that lasted the longest, was the least troublesome.

I use xfce as the desktop. There are others I have liked, but I am trying to stay away from "computers as work" and instead use them as tools to do things that are better for my spirit.

[truedelphi]

10. Well, many users seem to agree with you - notice this review

and comparison of Linux mint to ubuntu -

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Linux_Mint_vs_Ubuntu

What <specifically> does it mean that ubuntu is not GSL compliant? As noted in the chart at the above link? I don't know what GSL refers to, although having raised a teenager, I can say I understand the word "non-compliant"

[jtuck004]

11. GSL is a package of programs that other programs could call on and use,

I think. But something isn't written to do that correctly.

To mortals this may or may not mean anything. If there is something you want to run and it doesn't, there may be a work around or fix. Or not.

Otherwise, perhaps as is the case with the rest of us, it won't mean much.

To a programmer it may mean a lot more as well.

imho

[douglas9]

4. Ubuntu Forums

http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php?s=58026f764f9969479451212059b8d3ee

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Especially "New to Ubuntu"; note the stickies at the top of the forum. nt

[truedelphi]

8. Will do that - and thank you for the

Comment.

[truedelphi]

7. Thanks douglas9.

The link you posted should prove helpful.