[luau] Newbies and X Windows

Dennis T. Ching dching at landmarknetworks.com
Wed Jan 22 13:54:01 PST 2003


I'm still a Linux newbie, too, but I've had pretty good results with Red Hat 7.3's GNOME desktop environment and the Nautilus graphical shell.  It's a Windows-like experience.  The command line is still available from the "Terminal emulation program" button.

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Subject: [luau] Newbies and X Windows


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> I'm still a newbie to Linux and learning as much as I can.
> 
> My question is, does a newbie have to worry about installing or using X 
> Windows when they are first starting to use Linux?
> 
> Should they learn how to navigate Linux just using the command line before 
> they start using X Windows?
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