Partially. Many/most installs are easier using Synaptic, but there
are certain things best done at the command line.

Using the example in my prior reply regarding installing the sound
files, Synaptic wanted to install some 25+ packages and really left
me no options due to alleged dependencies. Using apt-get I was able
to install exactly, and only, what was needed and required -- seven
packages.

Please note I was building the game from its source code since there
were no Ubuntu packages available for penguin-command.

The vast majority of anything you might want to install will have
already been built by the Ubuntu teams and available for a (simple)
install using Synaptic (or apt-get or "Add/Remove..."),

> [...]
> BTW, I got Evolution set up to get all Ubuntulinux email. I was
> getting it through Apple Mail on my macbook but I couldn't copy and
> paste from one machine to another. Question: why is it that
> Evolution puts a red line under everything I type in the message
> body of my messages?

Every word is misspelled?

[ ducking and running ]

I hope you have a sense of humor. :-)

Thunderbird underlines in red the words it believes are incorrect. I
haven't used Evolution (or any of the eleventy-seven bazillion other
email clients available for Linux), so I really don't know. Maybe
someone who uses Evolution can chime in with an answer.

Prior to Thunderbird, I was using either/both mm or Emacs as an email
client depending on the system. Both go back to the 1970s when open
source began.