Are any of you here on the PB familiar with Debian? I successfully installed it on my laptop, but wasn't sure what to expect. Sure enough, I'm lost. I was able to login, and thought it would bring me to a user-friendly simple-looking desktop format. Not so. Instead, I'm looking at a DOS-like CMD Prompt screen and do not know where to begin.

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Debian usually installs from the ground up. You'll need to grab your graphics server and so forth.. it's not quite as simple as Ubuntu, Fedora, and the like.

Check this out:

Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide

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If you want a more user-friendly version of Linux, I would suggest looking into Ubuntu, LinuxMint, or OpenSUSE. As a Linux newbie, those are the ones that I started off with and they were rather easy to pick up and learn.

As for Debian, I have no experience with it. Sorry.

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I have Ubuntu, another kind of Linux. This site should help. Linux users usually don't want the computer to do anything for them, so Linux is designed with the assumption that its users know exactly what they are doing on everything. These forums should be able to help you get started, though.

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Josh -

I've you've got no Unix commandline experience, then you really want to follow advice already given and grab Ubuntu. The installation of Ubuntu is a piece of cake, and you'll have what you were expecting. It defaults to a nice-looking desktop and you'll be much happier. Depending on what you want to do, you'll have no reason you'd prefer Debian over Ubuntu in terms of performance and the like. All Linux flavors will give you similar performance, at least at first order.

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Thanks, folks. The reason I didn't go with ubuntu is because the CD's capacity was 2 mb short. : /

That's strange. Did you have a bad CD? I've never heard of this happening.

t

Not that I know of. The required space was 699, and the CD only had 696. Go figure.