Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop

Switching from Windows to Ubuntu is a tall learning curve and well worth the effort. This book answers a lot of the questions you will have.

Ubuntu is one of the Linux family of languages (i.e. an open source and streamlined grandchild of UNIX), easy to learn and easy to use. One of its nice features is, being an open source OS, there won't be as many barriers and opaque propriety solutions to its use than with anything from the big three commercial O/S sellers - you know who they are. My last experience with it was on an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS box, and let me tell you, 24.04 LTS is a welcome maturation of the O/S. It retains all the grace and ease of the earlier version plus all of its transparency. I won't make any disparaging comments about other O/S except to ask the reader how long do they they sit and watch their computers boot up every morning and how often do they see those spinning wheels of death?This book is a good basic introduction. An old Linux user will find it a fast and joyful read with many hints about the new version. Someone new to the O/S will find it less familiar but easy to understand. It has 176 numbered pages and is broken down into 26 numbered chapters. Its table of contents also lists easy to find numbered chapter sub headings.Some of the subjects are obvious to an old user but critically needed for a newby: such as 7.3.2.4. Swap. It starts with some vital advice: "Ubuntu creates a swap file. You should only create your own swap partition if you want to determine the swap space yourself." It goes on to explain about swap files in modern computers which usually have plenty of swap space, and points out the advantages of an automatic installation to reduce memory waste. Sage advice to say the least. The book is full of such tips.