switching users... forget it!

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

c. marlow wrote:

> I was trying to let my little cousin get on the computer and I went
> to switch users and it popped up saying you know you can use F
> 7-8-9 to switch accounts and I hit ok and dont show me this again
> and when I would go to switch back to me, my user name,  my screen
> would just be black and there would be a cursor on my screen.

Those sound like TTY sessions. I wrote a page on those if you'd like
to learn more about them:

http://mostlylinux.wordpress.com/troubleshooting/ttysessions/
 
> finally I just got frustrated with Linux Mint and just turned the 
> computer off and back on and now its working fine. I have the
> nvidia driver downloaded from the ADDITIONAL DRIVERS. 331.xxx or
> something like that. Its been installed ( the driver) since this
> morning. And yes I am fully up to date, and YES I rebooted after I
> installed the drivers, both updates and for the nvidia drivers.

I'm not sure how things are done in Mint, but in Kubuntu you only
need to reboot if a notification tells you to. It sounds like you
have things in order now, though. (:

> I just hope I dont have to put up with LINUX too much longer...
> Tired of reformatting.

I'm sorry to hear that you're having a bad experience. Reformatting
should only be a last resort if nothing else works. Hopefully you can
get help in here or in the forums or in IRC or in the wiki so that
won't be necessary in the future. Have you tried Ubuntu any of its
derivatives (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, etc.)?

> Hope to replace this machine with a windows machine sooon!!!

Maybe you could have both on your machine, and play around with Linux
on the side to get to know it gradually. That's how many of us
started (myself included). (:

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.