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Next step, to impress your friends you should learn right away doing everything from the terminal (stupid stuff like starting firefox, emacs,etc, but also cool stuff like append to all files in a given directory _copy for example).

But as Alex said, it will take some time (a few months, if you are trying out ubuntu let's almost every evening) until you can impress your frinds with ubuntu. That is my guess , maybe you are quicker, but you know Linux is my favorite OS, but I am objective enough to say that it is the less user-friendly OS I know.