PolishLinux: Five Things to Know When You Switch to Linux

[ Thanks to Borys Musielak for this link. ]

"#1: App-searching is a pleasure, or:
How to install and uninstall programs

"On Windows, you were probably used to find a given program on the Internet, download a setup.exe file, and then install the program in something like C:Program Files.

"Things are very different on GNU/Linux.

"On most main distributions, finding, downloading, installing and uninstalling applications is done with one single add/remove program..."

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