Trying to set up new Acer One Z1402 notebook - asking for root@localhost and not sure what to do
 

Hi, I'm very new to Linux. just moved to Thailand from the states and bought this Acer one z1402-C9JR notebook. Turned it on and it's asking me to enter a command line script. Looks like this:
[root@localhost ~]#

I'm not sure what to put. I have tried "startx" and it says command not found.

Not very tech savvy... can someone please help walk me through this??

This is the root account (in the home directory of root).

What distro is installed?

uname -a?

I'm not sure honestly. I've attached a picture of what comes up when I enter that command

From the "fc" I'm guessing Fedora but it's only a guess. The graphics system is not installed.

Try these commands
and immediately exit. If one of the first 2 is found then you probably have Fedora. If it responds to apt-get you probably have Debian or a derivative.

Then you can go to the relevant forum for help. Note that it seems your machine has enough oomph to run any distro so you can always start fresh - but check first.

According to this, it looks like your laptop has a very minimal Fedora-based OS installed.

I'd suggest wiping the drive and installing something else.

If you're looking for a Windows laptop, take this one back to the store.

fc23 => Fedora v23

yum|dnf install @kde-desktop

It is a good idea to read through the Fedora wiki here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Project_Wiki