On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:48 PM, spencer carter <[email protected]> wrote: > so this being my first attempt at ubuntu, and im hating it, at first it was > really cool, but now im sick of the fact that i cant do anything, if i want > any program i have to spend 4 hours trying to package it, un-pack, talk about > it in terminal, and all those steps. it took about 8 hours to just get WoW > onto it, and it still doesn't play!! spent about 12 hors trying to het java > and i still dont have it!!
Whoah there. calm down, take a deep breath and I'll show you the easy way to get software, especially java onto ubuntu. Go to the menu bar at the top of the screen, click on applications; go all the way to the bottom of the menu where it says 'Add/Remove' click on that. An application known as synaptic package manager will pop up, set it to show all available applications and search for 'java' the first result should be the latest sun java runtime. click the checkbox, click apply changes, it will ask for your password and then it will install java for you. I mean you can do it the hard way if you want. But in that case you may want to consider Gentoo or OpenBSD. If you go that route you'll curse more, but you'll learn more too. > im born and raised windows, and so its very tempting to go back to old > faithful, but i feel like there is a reason the true computer guys run > linux. yes i have read many beginners guides, but they dont help. any ideas? > or should the "not computer oriented enough kid" go back to windows? Computers and Operating Systems are just tools; it's like cars; you can go for a boring automatic that handles like a sofa or a a zippy stick shift that requires skill but pays off in fun. We at EUGLUG are the gearheads of computing; we like to take the engine apart and put it back together again ;-) _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
