basic

[q0k]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:55 PM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 19:41:54 PM +0900, q0k (q0k.character at gmail.com)
> wrote:
>
> > 2 basic questions.
> >
> > 1) I have been using Windows for 5 years. Why should I choose Ubuntu?
> > 2) Which version is better for home use by a student - 9.10 or 8.4? Why?
>
> I'll leave the second question to somebody else,


About the versions - I am just confused. Why isn't the latest version
maintained until the latest date. Why two types - "long term support" and
"short term support", while I undersntand only "old" and "new"... I just
badly need somebody's explanation, or v.9.10 release notes.


> but I think that, at
> least in part, you have the first question backward. Try to start from
> here:
>
> what do you actually _want_ or _need_ to do with your computer?
>

I am mainly using OpenOffice Writer, LyX, Mozilla Firefox. The main thing I
am using on Windows which isn't open-source is its Mocrosoft file browser.
It just has a directory tree at the left, list of dir contents at the right,
and big buttons "back, forward, up, cut, copy, paste" at the top. I had some
difficulty understanding what Ubuntu file browser looks like. At Ubuntu
website, I don't see a single hint about it.

Maybe, I just don't know what or where to search.
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