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Learn Ubuntu Linux – Start With a GUI Graphical User Interface

Posted by Abu Syams on August 9th, 2010

Learn Ubuntu Linux and being proficient in this operating system is an excellent means of making yourself as an IT people stand out when it comes to job openings and work placements. More than one budding computer related career start has been jump started by the candidate possessing Linux proficiency and proficiencies rather than solely Microsoft Windows based certifications. More and more companies and operations are running “Open Source programs in their operations”, and as well many substantial firms now need support for their Sun based servers that require prompt and through fixes on the spot.

At what point are your Ubuntu Linux skills that you are attempting to develop, upgrade and upscale from? Do you have any proficiencies at all – or are you starting from scratch. Your choices entail whether to learn Ubuntu Linux from the very start and beginning -as a baseline from command line operation ( which is harder and less convenient overall ) or do you start your “Linux career” by working with not a command line operation but the GUI windows based interface and thus work backwards in Linux proficiencies as you work with the Operating System, become more proficient and familiar with the Linux operating system and add in command line command abilities as you gain successful expertise with the whole gamut. No doubt it is personal preference. Both strategies have their advantages and disadvantages. Neither is right or wrong. Its more a question of your computer skills, patience, and perhaps the time span you have allotted to this project to gain proficiency and obtain a good skill set with Linux, UNIX and perhaps the Sun operating systems.

It can be said that overall command line Linux operations offer a lot more power and flexibility of operations. It is as if you have a manual transmission auto rather than an automatic. Command line Linux offers more power and versatility to the trained operator than does GUI. However if you are stuck in the mud so to speak with wheels spinning ( or in this case the computer stuck at a blank flashing keyboard and cursor your Linux skills will only bring you to a dead stop – your powerful Linux based computer is of little use to the employers system to any manner or form). Lots of luck and fun.

The basic problem is that if your keyboard entries and sequences are not exactly correct and precise, along not only with spelling but also correct computer language syntax you will be dead in the water. It is not as if you can back up. Your Linux operating system computer, as well as your hobby and perhaps Linux based computer career will just be staring back at you, blindly into space, dead and dormant doing nothing in any way what so ever at all.

Everything in life can be said to be trade offs. Text based Linux commands and applications are exceptionally powerful when it comes down to computer use and function. Yet everything in life is a trade off risk versus benefits. Text based Linux is great and very powerful not only in the operating system but also in applications, their direct uses and their powers to complete and accomplish tasks and projects.

Being able to use a graphic user interface (that is a GUI windowed type environment – as in a Macintosh or Microsoft Windows XP. 98 or new Vista/ Windows 7 equipped computer) are very handy. However as with most things in life, it is a trade off. The question is one of your specific situation again, your skills, time frame and patience.

Are you at a fork in the road where proficiency in Linux will help you with an IT job?
Do you have the time and patience to learn command line Linux with all its power. Or are either your patience or time frame limited so that at least with a Windows based GUI Linux setup you will be of some use to your organization or employer rather than naught?
Alternatively you may have some real Linux background skills? Taking the time and effort to learn command line Linux – in the form of Gento, Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu, or Sub based command line Linux setups may well give you a substantial leg up over employment or project candidates in your field.

The graphical portion of Linux (the GUI) is called the “X Window System”. You can try switching to character or text entry mode if you wish. UNIX did start out not as a GUI system, which would be hungry on resources and add complications and trade offs. The Graphic User Interface (GUI) of UNIX, and Linux which inherited it along the family tree, was added later as an add on or add-ons of different x windows systems.

All in all its probably easiest for Linux beginners and those wanted to learn Linux to begin with a GUI X Window system of your choice and then progress on to a text based character system if that is your choice or wish as you experience the joys, power and functionality of the Linux computer operating system.

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