newbie seeking advice

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@ stevespillage

Is your broadband speed O.K..??  http://www.speedtest.net/

To get a feel for your graphics there are a few tests:
glxgears, not sure if this is standard, open a terminal and type

Code:

glxgears

if it's not there
Go to Menu > System > Install/Remove S/W and search for mesa-utils and install it, try the above again, to stop it ctrl-c in the terminal window.

Also,
You can try glmark2
open a terminal and type

Code:

sudo apt-get install glmark2

then type

Code:

glmark2

Let it run, it may fail if graphics not up to snuff,
Otherwise, from what I read, 500+ gives reasonable performance for day to day normal use, high end cards can be 1000's

If you want to take this further it maybe better to open new thread in: Hardware > Video Cards
Save hogging the "Introductions"