Hmmph ... I decided to continue with my Mandarin Chinese lessons ... they’re easier and make more sense.
I’ve never been a fan of Ubuntu, or any command line work. When I was a TOTAL NEWB with Linux, I heard that ubuntu was the BEST! So I downloaded and burned a CD to install on my laptop test bed. Clueless. I couldn’t figure out what to do, couldn’t configure the internet, nothing. No sound, no hope.
But I tried a 10 pack of different flavors I bought off ebay for $10 and kept trying different “flavors”. The ONLY one that would load, configure, and present itself as ready to run, complete with wireless, was PCLinuxOS. Zero command line inputs, ever. Flash, everything worked.
If after all these years, Ubuntu still required tweaking, command line inputs, and mucking about, screw it. Not interested. Don’t bother posting “simple” commands to tell me how to do it either. I don’t care. That is retarded.
I can get around a Mint version I have on my Asus but it’s not a whit better than the 2007 version of PCLinuxOS.