Every other forum has rules about these posts because there’s such a glut of them, and yes, I could go read a stickied thread elsewhere, but here I am not doing that.
How would someone with no computer skills get acquainted with the OS? What version would you recommend to the hopeless novice? Can I keep windows on my PC and run the new OS or a practice version of it in a partitioned space while I learn? Can someone with minimal skills/time/patience be happy with a unix-like OS?
Just wanted to thank you for the informative and accessible content. The links really helped my understanding of the subject.
heh, thanks but really all the credit should go to the wikipedians and others who put all this information on the open web. i’ve learned a lot just by reading technical info online, even though i’m barely a programmer at all and know much less than i’d like