Smooth operation

I am so far really liking this OS. I have had very few problems with it, mostly only with firefox crashing. For that, I have installed an extension that will save a session when it crashes, so it will simply call up the pages you were at next time. There are many different extensions you can get, just click on "extensions" under the "tools" menu. Some are quite handy.

I have gotten a better monitor, so I can really see the detail of some of the programs on here. You can get many more types of applications on linux, from molecule contructors to a desktop planetarium, all free and open source. "Open source" refers to the availablility of the code for the application. Open source means that the source code (the code that makes up the program) is freely available for anyone to debug and edit, or do whatever you want with. It also (usually) means the program iteself is freely available (like freeware / shareware). There is a HUGE number of programs for download through Synaptic Package Manager (under system/administration menu), but if you know how to use the "apt-get" command you can download and install whatever you want, so long as you know the name of it. You can even use it to search. More on this as I learn it.