I am new to Linux. Woot!!

[WorrFighter]

Hey everyone. As I have said, I am new to Linux. I am 19 and am in college, I have used M$ since I was about 12 yrs old. I have just become old enough to wake up
I checked out quit a few distributions of Linux, and I settled on Xubuntu. So, as a noob, I have a few questions.

1. Does Xubuntu come with Open Office?
2. How do you defrag? Do you defrag?
3. Is there a "My Pictures" "My Music" or "MY Documents" folder?
4. And, when I log in, is there a way to disable having to put in your user-name and password?
5. Also, when logging in you can choose different sessions. What is the difference between previous session and Xfce session?

Thanks in advance.

[rokytnji]

Does Xubuntu come with Open Office?

Yes but you must install it through ADD/Remove or Synaptic Package manager. Abiword is what is installed by default. You can remove abiword through the same above APPS.

2. How do you defrag? Do you defrag?

On a ext3 file system there is no defrag. for a ext2 file system ther is but its dangerous I think. There is no need to defrag a linux file system like there is in Windows.

4. And, when I log in, is there a way to disable having to put in your user-name and password?

1. First go to System,Administration. Select Login Window
2. A dialog will appear, Select Security Tab
3. Check Enable Automatic Login, then select the name of the default user
4. You're done, the next time your Ubuntu boots, you will be automatically be logged in as the default user.

5. Also, when logging in you can choose different sessions. What is the difference between previous session and Xfce session?

Don't understand this question since you are going to disable login on your previous question.

Howdy and Welcome to LFO WorrFighter

[b2bwild]

5. Also, when logging in you can choose different sessions. What is the difference between previous session and Xfce session?

Previous session is what ever session you used for last time..like Gnome..KDE..or Xfce..
If you used Xfce in last login..Xfce will be used.

If you select Xfce..then its a direct choice.

[devils casper]

Xfce and most of other Linux distros come as LiveCD. Just boot up from Xfce CD. You will have Desktop with all available packages. It won't change anything in your Harddisk unless you click on Install Icon or edit files manually.

LiveCD will have a bit slow performance because everything resides in RAM only but its best to check features, Hardware support and few other things of OS before installation.

[hazel]

3. Is there a "My Pictures" "My Music" or "MY Documents" folder?
Thanks in advance.

The equivalent of My Documents is your home directory /home/yourname, also known as $HOME or ~. This is where you will find yourself immediately after logging in. There is no "My Pictures" or "My Music" by default but you can easily create them as subfolders in $HOME.

[elija]

The equivalent of My Documents is your home directory

That isn't quite right - your home directory is so much more than a "My Documents" type folder. In fact it was the description of "it's kind of like My Documents" that made me really unwilling to install software there for the longest time

[D-cat]

Right. ~/ in Linux is more like the \Applications and Settings\Users\Username folder, where other user folders like "My Documents" are kept. It's where all your user specific settings are held. You can just keep your stuff there, but I think it's easier to to create folders like "Documents" "Pics" and "Music" to keep files in.

~/Documents/
~/Pics/
~/Music/

In some distros, some will be already created for you. There are also pre-existing folders in most other distros (*buntu excluded for some unknown reason) such as ~/bin/ where you could keep your own user scripts (kind of like batch files, but more of a C like programming language than the stripped down basic of DOS).

If you're familiar with the DOS/Windows command line, this page may help you:
Linux/UNIX For DOS Users

There's also this app list (a little out of date IMO, but gives you some good leads):
Table of Equivalent Software - Libervis Wiki
and this one:
The Linux Alternative Project - linuxalt.com