cuteintern's Journal: this is so broken, and other Linux ravings (not all bad)

I have a very fresh Mandrake 10.0 and I thought I installed Firefox, but apparently I didn't.

Not only that, my journal page is broken, _broken_ in Konqueror. So very broken I reloaded the page 5 times before I tried scrolling down to see if anything showed up.

There's six columns of... columns on the right hand side, and the backdroung around the text entry box is black.

This is what I want right now: a simple explanation of what is analagous to what in terms of filesystem architecture. No, not FAT vs FAT32 vs NTFS vs ext2 vs ext3, journaling or not.

No. I just want file:/ and file:/usr/bin explained, and why didn't anyone tell me about /home/home/andy? Two homes? Of course that's not how it really is, but that's what it looks like.

Program Files = ?
Docs and Settings\Andy = /home/home/andy/documents
Windows\ = / ?
c:\ (root) = ?

If Firefox is installed, where is it and why can't I find it? I am going thru withdrawal, seriously. I'm shaking. It could be frustration over Konqueror (very nice, but NOT FIREFOX) and such, but seriously, I want my PLain Text URL extension, and I want to start putting my bookmarks into one file, instead of three different bookmark file unique to each application.

There's an idea: every time you add a bookmark, have Firefox add the bookmark to your Favorites folder so you can just go Start > Favorites to open a bookmark. Same deal with Linux- update the various bookmark files at program shutdown.

Mandrake 10.0 Community doesn't have a 4th install CD, but the software comes set up to look for it if you want to instal, say, XMMS.

That went well, after I found a forum post that told me how to tell Mandrake that it wasn't available.

Now, that being said, Mandrake 9.2 had a ways to go, and I just couldn't make a go of it before. 10.0 looks a lot better, feels better, and so far configures better than 9.2 ever did.

I love the fact that I was able to easily change my screen resolution, install XMMS on only the second try, and use Konqueror like IE/Windows Explorer.

I really really really love the fact that Mandrake can read my NTFS disks, and that I don't have to do wild and crazy things to get my mp3s and mpgs transferred. It looks like I can just leave them. That's good because I have too much stuff to just move it around.

Okay, I have to go off and find out how to install programs that don't come with the original distro. Wish me luck!

correction

[cuteintern]

I have the download version, not the Community version. It's a tiny quibble, anyway.