sorry for the title of the topic but am unable to find suitable one.

my question may seem stupid..

a lot of people have adviced me to go with ubuntu platform
because it's more user friendly.

but all what I can access with it, it's the command-line via SSH.

so how can I access it's user friendly interface?

I have started my ubuntu platform and set up my image disk and swap disk.

What we have here is the server edition of Ubuntu, which doesn't come with any graphical user interface. This helps save a lot of server resources.

Even on the command line, Ubuntu is still more user-friendly than most other flavors of Linux, because of its excellent package management system.

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thanks a lot dear.
and am sorry, I'm still new.

No reason to be sorry, everyone starts somewhere. I would advise on getting a second computer or using virtual machines and play testing everything you do, before testing and blowing stuff up on your linode

One thing I like about it is if you type in a command that isn't installed on your system, it will tell you the package that has it and how to install it. Pretty simple.

You can however install a GUI (Graphical User Interface) I recommend installing XFCE.

apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

after install

/etc/init.d/gdm start


Then just install VNC Server to view it........or if your using ubuntu at home connect with the remote x viewer.

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Because there are no good gnutella ncurses clients left.

X has this neat feature where you can pipe graphical apps from a remote machine onto your local X server. No need to install a GUI remotely.

VNC has this neat feature where you can run a graphical app remotely, detach from it at home/work/school and then reconnect to it at home/work/school.