Seven newbie tips for installing Linux apps
After I wrote in my article, Living free with Linux: 2 weeks without Windows, about the trouble I had with installing and updating Linux applications, I received literally hundreds of helpful responses offering me advice on how to handle things better. Here are seven top tips from the responders to help newbies like me.
Ask the community
As the hundreds of responses to my article show, there's a vibrant, active Linux community willing to offer advice to those who need help. One good place to go for advice about Ubuntu is ubuntuforums.org
Don't think of Linux as Windows
Numerous people wrote to say that for installing and updating software, it's a mistake to think of Linux in the same way as one thinks of Windows.
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