Gentlemen:
Casually running Linux since 2003; current "production" Ubuntu_10.04LTS on home_built legacy AMD 965 system: 27.5" Hanns monitor. No gaming or smart-phone, but digital camera, printer & scanner .
My question : does there exist an "appreciation" ... verbal and/or graphic .... mapping the structural and nominal expressions of Linux distro desktops to the actual tasks casual Linux users most usually perform on those systems?
May I admit I have never really got over the (1990s) **trauma** of individual applications depending on **system** resources instead of carrying with them their entire needful chandlery of software functions .. in principle I dislike system dependency for anything except gatekeeping and physical **power**!
Truth is I'm buried. The recently introduced novel Linux GUIs (Unity/Gnome-3/4, Matey ...) make choice of a Linux distro --- say nothing of declaring total frustration and leaving for the DARK SIDE --- a dicy matter. Most discussions of new Linux desktops are so jargon-encrusted that I cannot understand the implications ... let along the specific tasks ... assigned to various "features?" of the desktops. Thus my desire for a clever guide providing the crucial connections between =my hand-eye-mouse-keyboard behavior and the underlying software structures that support the computer response.
I do NOT want a book ... I want a single sheet (fold over perhaps) detailing the connections as you could imagine a physiology sheet for the human body commenting body parts/systems to everyday human activity. Of-course it will be selective it what is shown ... all true things are. I want to be able to look at that sheet and immediately tell what software sub/meta system is responsible for my ability to mouse-a-URL , choose a file or type a word. Only then I speculate can I rationally choose among the various offered and touted Linux GUI environments.
Casually running Linux since 2003; current "production" Ubuntu_10.04LTS on home_built legacy AMD 965 system: 27.5" Hanns monitor. No gaming or smart-phone, but digital camera, printer & scanner .
My question : does there exist an "appreciation" ... verbal and/or graphic .... mapping the structural and nominal expressions of Linux distro desktops to the actual tasks casual Linux users most usually perform on those systems?
May I admit I have never really got over the (1990s) **trauma** of individual applications depending on **system** resources instead of carrying with them their entire needful chandlery of software functions .. in principle I dislike system dependency for anything except gatekeeping and physical **power**!
Truth is I'm buried. The recently introduced novel Linux GUIs (Unity/Gnome-3/4, Matey ...) make choice of a Linux distro --- say nothing of declaring total frustration and leaving for the DARK SIDE --- a dicy matter. Most discussions of new Linux desktops are so jargon-encrusted that I cannot understand the implications ... let along the specific tasks ... assigned to various "features?" of the desktops. Thus my desire for a clever guide providing the crucial connections between =my hand-eye-mouse-keyboard behavior and the underlying software structures that support the computer response.
I do NOT want a book ... I want a single sheet (fold over perhaps) detailing the connections as you could imagine a physiology sheet for the human body commenting body parts/systems to everyday human activity. Of-course it will be selective it what is shown ... all true things are. I want to be able to look at that sheet and immediately tell what software sub/meta system is responsible for my ability to mouse-a-URL , choose a file or type a word. Only then I speculate can I rationally choose among the various offered and touted Linux GUI environments.