04-17-2009, 02:08 PM
There is no need to use the terminal. If you can run the application from the folder on your desktop you can run it from the 'home' folder just as well. Nautilus is the file management application that is the equivalent of the 'Finder' in OS X. Your files in Linux are stored by default at /home/username (e.g. /home/jebb). This actually isn't much different than OS X, in fact the only difference is that OS X puts the files at /Users/jebb rather than /home/jebb.