man there are ALOT of aussies in this forum....very cool.

yes i am yet another aussie newbie and after struggling with what seemed the impossible task of installing ubuntu and kubuntu and then opensuse on an external drive i finally installed opensuse successfully on my p[artitioned primary drive and am fairly hapy with it.

i must say that i am very much lost when it comes to things that i do habitually and as a power user/web developer/sql user etc in windows and i cant even install my nvidia graphics drivers.

searching through threads and tutorials hasnt helped much either as it seems that in every guide there comes a point where it assumes too much or takes for granted an operation or process that the newbie just simply doesnt know- rendering the entire guide useless.

so here i am a week and a half down the track and still not really knowing how to do much at all- and still without my graphics card installed...despite adding installation sources, using yast/yum, repositories and so forth...very confusing stuff IMO.

i guess that is my real problem with linux...i consider myself easily taught and capable of understanding advanced concepts but am having a real difficult time with linux and it is frustrating to say the least.

so im off to purchase a new HDD and am going to run freebsd and linux on it, as well as keeping my windows installation (for work and games)...but really want to make this workj as it looks great from what ive seen.

are there any really good references or distros that i should be looking at?

is there a list of FAQs that cover the new user transitioning to linux?

is there a list of windows tasks and correlation to linux?

same for terminology?

i guess at this very point i'd feel some sense of achievement if i could just get my graphics card to work....

thanks for this forum- i hope i can get the help i desperately need and return it when others cover the same ground later.

Cheers,

Tim
Adelaide, South Australia

Welcome to LQ!

OpenSUSE is a good distro to start with. There are different tutorials, but for specific tasks, like servers, networking etc. If you have a specific question, there should be a HOWTO or two.

When it comes to nvidia driver, it's a good idea to start with it, because it's not very hard. Try with those two tutorials: http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...drivers_on_FC3
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...n_5_EASY_Steps
If you get stuck, just point to the tutorial, step and describe the problem you get into. Also, there are hundreds of threads on this subject, so you can also search for solution to (probably) nearly every problem you may have with the driver.

Welcome!