02-13-2018, 04:44 PM
"Here's the final kicker: apparently in Ubuntu, there is no (practical... did find admin:/// or whatever command for sh) way to access your own root directory."
As far as Ubuntu "sudo su" will give you a root shell. You can also install the Debian administrative file access option package to nautilus. It's in synaptic. "gksudo" is deprecated for newer versions so don't bother with it. Compiz and the gnome tweak tool give you just about any option you desire with the unity DE. It's definitely not as much of a natural fit to Windows converts as XFCE is, but it fits to many powerful gnome tools for developers.
I always recommend and often install Linux Lite for people coming from Windows with no Linux background. I use Debian 9 as my daily OS at home, but I have a partition with Linux Lite on it and a spare laptop with Linux Lite, so I can keep up with whatever's new there, so I can help the people I installed Linux Lite for. A couple have moved on to Ubuntu as they progressed. This forum and the XFCE forum are the best places to learn about XFCE DE.
Welcome to LL.
TC
As far as Ubuntu "sudo su" will give you a root shell. You can also install the Debian administrative file access option package to nautilus. It's in synaptic. "gksudo" is deprecated for newer versions so don't bother with it. Compiz and the gnome tweak tool give you just about any option you desire with the unity DE. It's definitely not as much of a natural fit to Windows converts as XFCE is, but it fits to many powerful gnome tools for developers.
I always recommend and often install Linux Lite for people coming from Windows with no Linux background. I use Debian 9 as my daily OS at home, but I have a partition with Linux Lite on it and a spare laptop with Linux Lite, so I can keep up with whatever's new there, so I can help the people I installed Linux Lite for. A couple have moved on to Ubuntu as they progressed. This forum and the XFCE forum are the best places to learn about XFCE DE.
Welcome to LL.
TC
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