fishing

[erabyss]

I jsut got intersted in linux lastnight. To be honest I finally stoped reading up and hit the hay somewhere about 7am. Im tired now, and having spent the last 2 days reading about linux, my head starting to hurt. I probly need to take a few days to do things like work and school. LOL

Any one thats nice enough, has time enough, and is willing to share a lil insite to save me a few hours or days of research.

How can I start up the GUI in kubuntu?

also

I would love to be able to find a good (up to date) distro that is:

heavy on the gui
easy to learn basic linux os, so I can get an easy understanding of how to use it
CD bootable

the last 2 days I have:
tryed 2 linux OS (kubuntu, and CD live slax) and 1 emulator (Cygwin)
i like the slax because it explain very simply how to get the the gui. Kubuntu and Cygwin both lost me at the the front door.

Again I am only hoping some1 would be willing to point me in the right direction, and maybe save me a couple hours or even days of blind searching. Other wise it might be next week before I have the time to really spend a good amount of time learning about linux.

If you made it this far, thank you for reading my post.

[Freston]

With GUI you mean the Graphical User Interface, right??

Because I'm a bit surprised to read that Kubuntu is giving you a hard time reaching the GUI. It may be it's having a problem of some sort. Maybe a driver issue? (I know I always have video driver issues, which luckily are reasonably easy to fix)



Anyway. You can do two things. Try one of Mandriva, Knoppix, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, or something. See if that works. And/or you can post here what happens exactly when you boot into Kubuntu.

Does it hang? Does the screen turn black? Does it boot into a textual interface (DOS-like shell)? Error messages? Does it do this when run as LifeCD? Or have you installed it?

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Oh, and don't bother with Cygwin, it is something else. It creates an environment to run Linux applications under Windows. But you'll need to be able to compile those applications from source... under Windows(!)
Many of the main stream applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, etc) already have a Windows port. Now if only we could port Konsole to Windows....

[RobinVossen]

I am not sure if you are Ready already.
But, try to install Gentoo once.
Just the base system.. it has a Step-By-Step how to..
Try to follow it.
It learns you lots of the commands..
Though I am warning you, it aint easy..

Oh, and well Small Advice on buying a Linux box..
NO WLAN only and NO amd64 and ofc Never buy from ATi.
It can make everything work.
but, well its easyer if you just use a Cable and a 32bit and a nVidea..