Ubuntu

What do you mean by you can't get "any" programs to run.

As for the other drives, they should initialize and be mounted from the start, but look around in the Disks Manager under System -> Administration -> Disks, and see if they're given a mount path and enabled.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Telling him to install Synaptic is redundant because Synaptic comes with Ubuntu by default and is the preferred way to install software.

He's also very silly to think his Windows software will work in Linux like nothing. That's why it's called "Linux" and not "Windows."

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Cyrus XIII

Edit: Those partitions will be read only since NTFS support in Linux is still somewhat shaky. Creating an FAT32 partition might be a good idea to move date between both operating systems.

Or he could install ext2 IFS in Windows which will add ext2/3 partition support in Windows.

That's what I do, and as far as I can tell, it works just fine.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.