Could have been a random act of vandalism by braindead kids.

I think nano is pretty much reasonable. Ideally perhaps a newbie-friendly it would mimick GUI editors in more shortcuts such as control+s to save and control+o to open (I always catch myself either doing control + o to try to save something in kwrite or control + s to try to save in nano), but it's light-years away of vi in newbie-friendliness. I just don't get why is that so common to see sometimes instruction apparently directed at newbies saying thing like first you got to edit file X, type "vi filex". I think it in some cases it may be some sort of prank on newbies, and if we were to see the one who did the suggestion he'd have the "trollface" expression. "Problem, noob?".

If you think vi makes new commers yell and run away wait until they find out the _beast_ called emacs. I think it will take them (atleast me) months even to find out that there is even a news reader in it... For the life of me I could not get my head around emacs (I tried a lot of times though).
BTW dont you think it would be a _lot_ better if someone had written a simple help file? Whatever I learned about vi was from vim

Yeah - know that - been there.
Happy today that my own systems about 6 PC's and Laptops run on Linux today. Windows is where it should be in VM.

Remember the times I had to restart my Windows Servers minimum once a week to keep them running happily whil I restarted the UNIX machine once every 6 months. And the sole reason was to give the case a good cleaning and change filters.

Ever tried some creative way of aggregating the data? Comes to mind that more bandwith is usually quickly eaten up by more data. But it sounds as if you know your stuff.

As for hardware manufacturers - they increasingly start to act like MS and build systems but not to the end and leave you with unfinished solutions. Not thought through and always something new which won't fit into the old stuff.

Good luck

Hi Rocket357,
In my case; really a newbie, I have not learned much about using terminal mode, if VI means that, and I'm not any kind of a computer programmer. I'm more of an end user. I moved into linux because of the headaches of Windows crashing and slow performance. Started with PCLOS about 2006 and progressed to Mint11, Mint13 is slower, and would like to use Slackware 13.37. However, it does not come with a GUI after installation. I can log on in terminal mode....where do I go from there? Was there a choice I missed? Not sure. Us newbies don't understand coding format and have difficulty when someone tells us to type the following code. No example here. We do not know where the code is exact or the person expects me to know a variable, I should know, goes there. So that is where I'm lost. Yes, I have looked at the 'Help' listing but again it is Greek. I did discover how to get a director listing and print it. I keep reading and try to learn, so time consuming and I don't read so fast.

The install was made on the hard drive that had Mint13 on it. So that is where I stand now. I use multiple 2.5" HDs for different OSs and one drive is dual boot with Linux Ubunta/Windows 7. All this is used on a Dell 1545 laptop with 4gb RAM.
Sincerely Hopeful.

Hello again!
Think you're getting a little mixed-up there. We have a saying over here for someone who's useless: "He's as much use as a one-legged man at an arse kicking party."

uwah i see you're having lots of fun there! burn along!

This was extremely helpful, I had to tweak it a little bit to match my installation but it worked as a charm.
Thanks for sharing it!