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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
You CAN have two programs running at the same time. And more. They open up in little tabs to the top-left of the screen in UNE. You can click the Ubuntu logo on the far left to see the programs menu again.
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Yes, how embarrassing, I discovered that (quite by accident) about 20 minutes after my original post. I finally caught on that, rather than longer descriptions - like Windows task bar - the program bar at the top just shows icons.
I
know it's not Windows! I just keep expecting it to act like Windows.
It seems to me you have to be a little more...active?...in the running and upkeep of a Linux system. For example, when I booted up today, it told me it had updates (actually, hundreds of them!) I approved the updates, and it warned me about half-way through that "I" had chosen to not install one of them (was it "Gun", "Grun", gad, I don't remember). Well, I had approved all, so I didn't know why it said that...and where the hell would I go to find out why it thought it had?!
I went with the assumption (dangerous I know) that it had something to do with the Wubi installer (this "grun-whatever" thing had something to do with a boot-installer or something) and running Linux the way it does. So I went ahead and agreed not to allow it to install. It rebooted okay (had an error message that flashed too fast for me to read it, but that was it).
But it seems to me there's a level of technical understanding it assumes that I don't currently have. I'm not sure if Windows assumes the same, and as a user for the last 20 years I've got the basics already built in...or if I'm right.
What I mostly want it for (at the moment, anyway) is to surf the web with less likelihood of being attacked by the latest worm or virus. I'm really not sure how much extra protection I have, given that it's running on a Windows machine. But that is what is making me willing to experiment and learn what I can about it.