[orca-list] new person needing assistance

[Scott Shade <fabian754 samobile net>]

Hello folks.  The name is Scott Shade.  I'm afraid the subject line 
pretty much somes this up.  I'm a windows user and have a limited idea 
of linux from when I had help a few years ago installing devian on a 
different machine with speakup.  I liked it but when my machine had to 
be reformatted and my windows installation fixed I lost everything and 
my partition got messed up.  I saw a review of ubuntu on blind cool 
tech and thought I was grabbing the wubi installer for windows to go 
straight to 8.10.  Instead I have 8.04 and have it updated, but can't 
seem to get to 8.10.  I don't remember that much about my previous 
linux experiences to feel comfortable delving in to this and in this 
version it appears that after I put my password in on various screens, 
I'm losing speech so I'm a bit hesitant to attempt to try to get the 
updates to everything I have.  My goal is to try to learn linux and 
work with it on this single machine I have running windows and linux 
together.  Is it possible for someone to talk me through it, or do some 
type of remote control of my machine to accomplish this?  Also if you 
all could point me in the direction of more resources to learning about 
linux and basic navigation, that would be great.  A sort of linux for 
dummies course if you would.  The last time I messed with anything like 
this was in 2003 I think.  Thank you so much for any help you can give 
me.  I'm assuming that since I'm running 8.04 that I probably don't 
have the latest versions of orca either so I'll appologize for all the 
help I'm probably gona need in advance.  Take care all, and thanks again,
Scott

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