Newbie here

[simon]

seems to be greek & latin but read couple of articles about the ability of Customise which inspried me to know more in depth

the "greek & latin" you mentioned, and the "ability to customise" actually go together, to some extent: the more control over your computer system that you want to have, the more you need to learn stuff in order to exercise that control. the cool thing is that gnu/linux doesn't set any limits on this: the more you want to learn, the more you can customise everything. even the kernel of the operating system is free open source software, so in theory you can get your gnu/linux system to do ANYTHING your hardware is capable of doing: it's just a matter of how much time you want to put into learning how and making the changes.

if you want to use a distribution "as is" and just get on with doing stuff the way the developers imagined you'd like to, then the learning curve is almost exactly the same as for windows (i.e. it may seem hard/weird at first, but no more so than windows would if you were coming to it for the first time). on the other hand, if something bugs you...anything at all, from the time it takes to boot up, through to the wording or layout of menus...you can simply continue to learn, and find out how that bit works, and change it to suit your tastes. you're NOT able to do that with windows. in windows there are a few pre-defined things that you can "tweak", but that's it: at the end of the day, you're stuck with a particular setup (with its particular range of options) no matter how much you learn about it.

so don't let the "greek & latin" get you down: the basics are no harder (some say easier) than the basics for windows, and if you occasionally get a glimpse of the not-so-basic complexities going on underneath the gui, don't be intimidated by all that: it's actually a blessing because all that extra stuff to learn translates into extra stuff that you can do. you've made a very smart move by starting to use gnu/linux, and you've also made a good decision by signing up here: most of the questions you may have along the way can be answered by people in forums like this one. welcome to the linux community!

[andri]

Don't worry I know greek, others know latin, we can be of a help

[greimer]

Hi binaryboy (great name BTW, you should get a cape and a mask) welcome to the Linux World.

I'm usually not here, in fact I almost gave up on trying to log into Linux Forums because it seemed like too much of a PITA to dig up my username/password, but I did want very much want to talk to you, as a newcomer to Linux.

I guess that before you started using Linux you were probably using (you should pardon the expression) Windows. I've been using the Solaris version of Unix, and later on Linux, since around the time that Mr. Gates was first cooking up Windows as a transition from MsDOS. Not surprisingly, I tend to find Windows very counter-intuitive and annoying. I especially hate the way that info on the 'Desktop', or my 'Briefcase' (WateverTF that is), or other make-believe Windows places is so hard to find in the Windows directory structure. And I could go on and on, but I wont.

I guess you're already learning the Linux way of doing/thinking, so you're not really virginal anymore, but I'd be very interested to hear what things YOU find to be counter-intuitive, annoying, neddlessly complicated, etc, from the perspective of somebody coming into the Linux/Unix world from a different computinmg environment. I think that would be valuabel information, so much so that I might actually connect to linuxforums again.

[greimer]

Gee, it's been so long that LinuxForums thinks I just joined! It took my UN/PW thouigh....

[binaryboy]

http : / / lowfatlinux.com /

hey thanks man really very helpful & lot of information

[binaryboy]

Hi Simon

at outset i would like to thank you for enlightening about the myth in linux and also i liked "so don't let the "greek & latin" get you down" well thats important i believe when you don't understand you tend develop frustation but you have assured me the journey is going to be fun

Thank you
BinaryBoy

[binaryboy]

Hey whatsup man! Btw, what Linux distro are you using? Or what variation I guess is what I'm asking? Ubuntu, Suse?

Hi Robert


Well i am just novice started with RHEL in my laptop

[binaryboy]

Hi binaryboy (great name BTW, you should get a cape and a mask) welcome to the Linux World.

I'm usually not here, in fact I almost gave up on trying to log into Linux Forums because it seemed like too much of a PITA to dig up my username/password, but I did want very much want to talk to you, as a newcomer to Linux.

I guess that before you started using Linux you were probably using (you should pardon the expression) Windows. I've been using the Solaris version of Unix, and later on Linux, since around the time that Mr. Gates was first cooking up Windows as a transition from MsDOS. Not surprisingly, I tend to find Windows very counter-intuitive and annoying. I especially hate the way that info on the 'Desktop', or my 'Briefcase' (WateverTF that is), or other make-believe Windows places is so hard to find in the Windows directory structure. And I could go on and on, but I wont.

I guess you're already learning the Linux way of doing/thinking, so you're not really virginal anymore, but I'd be very interested to hear what things YOU find to be counter-intuitive, annoying, neddlessly complicated, etc, from the perspective of somebody coming into the Linux/Unix world from a different computinmg environment. I think that would be valuabel information, so much so that I might actually connect to linuxforums again.

Hi Greimer

Thanks for the name, yes i have started learning Linux red hat version, most annoying part in windows that it crashes at times which i hate, my curious nature to know why it crashed coudn't go further than a point and on otherhand linux you can know whats running in computer when program started, Windows i didn't find much flexible on this Aspect.

Thank you
BinaryBoy

[binaryboy]

Hi Forum

while searching for some kind of guidance on linux and i found this forum and very delighted to see so many replies which are very valuable for me

thanks everyone

BinaryBoy

[animefreak1492]

hi and welcome to a wonderful os i hope you enjoy it as much as i do