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Tip: Five things to know when you switch to Linux

Tuesday, 21 November 2006

If you have just installed GNU/Linux on your computer, and have only ever used Windows before, here are five things you need to know to get going rapidly. On Windows, you were probably used to find a given program on the Internet, download a setup.exe file, and then install the program in something like C:Program Files. Things are very different on GNU/Linux.

I don't know if I agree with everything this fellow has written, but it is someplace to get you started if you know next to nothing about Linux.

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