Quote from: zipstyle on June 22, 2013, 02:14 amQuote from: SelfSovereignty on June 22, 2013, 01:13 amQuote from: organon on June 21, 2013, 09:21 pmI hope TJ didn't get sucked into the crystal skull vortex while building Sim city out of the Chandelier he had delivered! Have one order on the way that was overnighted and the other one is being sent too today so hopefully I have a double header tomorrow. Not needing it one order will do me nicely but its nice to have some good news to share rather than bumming everyone out because i can't be selfish with my misery. Everyone have a great day and i'll report back tomorrow with a patented organon rambling and raving on fire because i'm high review, interrupted by periodic views of internet porn then back to you guys for another paragraph then back to porn for god knows how long....I'm a sick sick puppy and there's no cure! OK sobriety but we're not interested in that until monday morning at the earliest!:)Jesus, if you took all the time I've spent tweaked and watching porn and did something constructive with it... well nevermind, that's too depressing to think about. Not all of us even want to be cured. Just wanted to say have fun my friend :DGood to see you around SS :DThanks Zip, nice of you to say. Why though, there some reason I wouldn't be around? :)Quote from: Young Morpheus on June 22, 2013, 08:13 amI still dual boot, but one main question ws the difference between GNOME and KDE? Are there any differences other than personal preference? In a Gnome environment, what's the typical way to install software? I've seeen many ways to do it, but I'd like to explore and understand what's going on with different CLI switches rather than just copying/pasting. GNOME and KDE are desktop environments. A lot of people like GNOME, a lot of people like KDE. Basically it's just preference. They both come with a large collection of software tools; neither will really change the way you install software though. If you're using Ubuntu, to do it via command line, "apt-get install XXX" is the way you'll want to do it for either GNOME or KDE. If you're using a different distro that doesn't use Debian's package format (Debian is another Linux distro), it'll be something other than apt-get though.Basically, in all of Linux, the standard is "man apt-get" (or "man whatever" you want the manual page about) and "apt-get --help" (or "whatever --help" or often just "whatever -h" instead of --help). Notice the single dash for the abbreviation and the double dash for the full word. That'll get you info on whatever you need pretty much.It occurs to me that it may help you understand what's going on with installing software to keep in mind that all installing software really involves is copying the program and the files used by the program to the right directories. Sometimes programs come with support libraries that have to be copied to the right place before the list of available libraries is updated. Quite frequently programs depend on some other support library from some other program -- that's what package managers are for.Package managers help track the dependencies of programs, so when you try to install one but don't have something it depends on, the package manager can install the dependency as well. Basically that's all you're doing when you install software, whether it's from the command line or a graphical interface.