Help me learn terminal, commands and Wine

[Boogerlad]

hey, i'm a complete noob and i don't understand any of this stuff. I've been reading for months aout how to use this stuff, but all the guides out there are way to complex for me to understand. Can someone here explain it to me as explaining to a 7 year old on how to use windows? I'd like to bascially use linux as an alternative to windows xp, learn the commands to make the system do stuff and understand terminal better. Lastly, i'd also like to play some directx9 games, so can i just use windows dlls instead of wine if i have it? Will it work better or should i just use wine? also, i don't get the repositories and what the sources list is. :confused: i'd like to also learn how to install wine on x86-64, learn how to use it and install other native linux programs. With all these deb and source files, i'm really confused. how do u install linux and windows programs on wine in the terminal, can someone link me to a site that can help or give some advice?

Thanks. Any help will be apreciated.

[happychappy]

First of all, what distro are you using?

[yankee]

Installing software:

(assuming you are root)

Debian/derivatives thereof:

apt-get install packagename

Redhat/derivatives thereof:
yum -i packagename

Wine for dummies:

wine <executeable name>

to say this is helpful may be an overstatement.

[Boogerlad]

i'm on ubuntu, but how do you get the sources.list file from terminal?