OMG This thing is so HARD!!!

[Vikeyev]

I just can't get used to this OS, It's so confusing .

Firstly, where in heck is everything I'm installing getting placed? I've yet to find out where skype went and I don't even know if I managed to install wine or not, I'm not even sure if what I was looking at was even wine.

Secondly what on earth is a repository and why does just about everything mention some kind of repository?

Lastly, can anybody please point me to the Opensuse for Uber Noobs section?

[Dapper Dan]

Hi Vikeyev and welcome to the forums!

If you will remember the first time you got in front of a Windows computer you were just as confused as you are right now... Take a deep breath and be patient. As they say, "Rome wasn't built in a day." You certainly now understand things don't work in Linux as they do in Windows but it's not anything you can't learn. Please understand that OpenSuSE isn't going to be as complete as the supported SuSE version (which costs) so there will be things you'll need to install and configure yourself.

As for the programs you mention, did you install Skype through the package manager? Or did you download it from their site and install that? If the later, (and you don't see a Skype icon in your menu) you can create a launcher on your desktop by right clicking. Most (but not all) "executable" files get placed in /usr/bin.

Let's see if Skype is installed... Open a terminal (which should be in your menu) and type in:

skype

...and press enter.

For wine, please remember it isn't a magic bullet that allows you to run all Windows programs. Some will install and run well, others not at all and many will run between these two extremes. Thankfully there are many Linux equivalents to Windows programs that you can run free of charge. To run or install a Windows program with wine (if it is installed), you can probably do it by right clicking on the file and choosing wine to open it.

You really do need to study up on how to use the SuSE package manager because that is the best and easiest way to install most packages. The repositories are where the packages are that you will draw from when installing. There are different repositories for different packages. Please see this link for detailed instructions. Good luck!

[reed9]

If Skype is installed, it should appear in your applications menu.

How did you install it?

Install Skype on Opensuse 11.2

Overview of Chapters | The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide

openSUSE 11.3 | SUSE Linux | Beginner's guide to multimedia codecs MP3 DVD 3D nvidia ati wireless

Unix-Tutorials.com - The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 11.3 (GNOME)

[Vikeyev]

I just double clicked the installer icon lol, I've spent to much time on windows.
Thank you both so much, the more I learn about this operating system the more fun it becomes and the more accomplished I feel.

[GregBrannon]

This forum and Google are your friends.

[mikesd]

I just can't get used to this OS, It's so confusing .

Firstly, where in heck is everything I'm installing getting placed? I've yet to find out where skype went and I don't even know if I managed to install wine or not, I'm not even sure if what I was looking at was even wine.

Secondly what on earth is a repository and why does just about everything mention some kind of repository?

Lastly, can anybody please point me to the Opensuse for Uber Noobs section?

try

whereis skype

You should definitely learn basic command lines in linux. Don't be afraid. The command line is your friend. Just be careful as root (Administrator. You have full rein as root. Don't run as root if you don't have to).

and a repository is a collection of software packages for your current distro in one location so a package manager (in this case zypper) can go look and say "oh there it is".

[Vikeyev]

try

whereis skype

You should definitely learn basic command lines in linux. Don't be afraid. The command line is your friend. Just be careful as root (Administrator. You have full rein as root. Don't run as root if you don't have to).

and a repository is a collection of software packages for your current distro in one location so a package manager (in this case zypper) can go look and say "oh there it is".

Well I'm starting to get used to this OS and I'm also very slowly learning commands. I even managed to install my ati driver through the terminal (with the help of some tutorials), I know I could have just used the one click install on the opensuse website but I wanted to do it the long way.

I'm just not used to being noob at simple things on PC's, it frustrates me....as you can obviously tell. They weren't kidding when they said it's hard for windows users to pick up linux. Funnily enough I have only managed to get 1 single game working on this OS and I actually bought this computer for gaming. What's worse is I can't reformat and go back to windows because I absolutely love this OS, people say create a duel boot but I don't want windows on any of my PC's from now on. I hate windows and I'm never going back to it.

[mikesd]

They weren't kidding when they said it's hard for windows users to pick up linux. Funnily enough I have only managed to get 1 single game working on this OS and I actually bought this computer for gaming. What's worse is I can't reformat and go back to windows because I absolutely love this OS, people say create a duel boot but I don't want windows on any of my PC's from now on. I hate windows and I'm never going back to it.

It's not hard. It's just a little different. Everything in this world requires some kind of learning. But you're not gonna have much luck getting games to run on Linux if they're windows games. Wine is not a cure all, and really some of it doesn't work right. You can play with VmWare but that's not really a perfect fix either. If u want to game get a different computer for Windows and gaming. You'll learn to mix between windows and Linux eventually. Both have their place.

[Vikeyev]

It's not hard. It's just a little different. Everything in this world requires some kind of learning. But you're not gonna have much luck getting games to run on Linux if they're windows games. Wine is not a cure all, and really some of it doesn't work right. You can play with VmWare but that's not really a perfect fix either. If u want to game get a different computer for Windows and gaming. You'll learn to mix between windows and Linux eventually. Both have their place.

This is my gaming pc but I just hate windows now, the entire thing is so, inefficient, I mean seriously how come files don't get fragmented in linux? That was one thing bill gates should have seen as a bad thing, and registries constantly filled with errors and having to go all eagle eye just to watch out for viruses. Plus this thing is legendary for programming and learning to code. The majority of useful applications and dependencies being very easily accessed via a setup tool like YAST, how easy it is to find the small dependencies for your favorite programs. No more .dll files playing up or randomly missing forcing you to go search for them online only to find a third party application altered it in the first place. Linux has far superior security, my computer is actually running faster now that I have linux installed then it was when I was running windows. In windows you can't even get rid of windows mail or outlook express or internet explorer, all of which are crappy. Their is greater choice with linux in windows it's just black or white. The stop errors are hideously annoying in windows, the last one I got when I attempted to debug it the error report claimed it was ntkrpamp.exe which is an important windows system file playing up and that was all the info it gave me, basically meaning that another file was causing the problems. I had to go through and verify more then 50 third party apps and drivers just to figure out which one was causing it.

Most of my linux problems have been fixed rather easily in comparison to my windows problems and the linux community is so much better then the windows community many of them are jerks.

[donaldfarkas]

You might have problems playing games under linux lot of games do not work under wine. Since is your gaming computer i would have dual booted do everything in linux and then just boot into windows for games.