Chapter 3. A NEW PLACE TO CALL HOME
Getting to Know the Desktop
Now Ubuntu is up and running, and you are ready and rarin' to go. If you are running Ubuntu from your hard disk, you will first see the login screen that will appear each and every time you boot up (Figure 3-1). There's no need to keep the login screen waiting, so click your username, type your password, and press enter. Within moments, you will be face to face with your desktop in Ubuntu.
Welcome to the GNOME Desktop
Figure 3-2 shows Ubuntu's implementation of the GNOME desktop, and as you can see, it isn't all that different from what you might be used to in a Windows or Mac OS environment, ...
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