I do hope I'm sending this to the right place. I find everything so
confusing and difficult, here.
On the subject of which: I can't find anything, anywhere, that tells me
what's on these 20 additional CDs I've taken hours to download and burn
[I'm not on-line with the computer I'm using to try out Etch]. They all
look about the same, when I put the CD in and it opens on my desktop,
and
the only things inside the file folders are more file folders, denoted
with letters of the alphabet, which lead to files with all kind of
strange names, only some of which are occasionally familiar (like "java"
and "nvidia" ["Hey! I think I've got one of those!]).
Then there are the questions that will probably forever remain
unanswered, like: if there are sane frontends, does that mean there are
INsane ones as well, and how can you tell them apart -- before it's too
late? And how about the backends? Would they be crazy, too?
If you haven't guessed it, I'm a rank newbie and a total non-techie.
I've
come to realize that Linux is probably well beyond my capabilities,
and I
will probably end up having to abandon the enterprise, as anxious as
I am
to be rid of "Big Brother" [Microsoft].
I can't figure out how to get any extra programs into my computer,
presuming I can see a list of them, first (preferably with a description
of what the program is/does). The only one I could find to add was Open
Office, because it's on the first disk, and Synaptic offered it to me.
Even that was problematic, as there were several entries to choose from.
If the "... apt-get blah, blah ..." command line thingmee is the only
way to do this, then I'll just have to forget it: even if I didn't have
M.E. (a fatigue disorder), my middle-aged brain simply isn't capable of
dealing with SO much new and totally unfamiliar data at once. It's just
too much.
Thanks.
Purple Penny
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