Linux woes :(

I'm a Linux noob, and I find it extremly frustrating.
I'm using Ubuntu at the moment which seems nicer than suse, but then it could be that I just like gnome over KDE?? Anyway its my new Linux flavour of the month.

Today I learned something valuabe - ./configure, make, make install, make clean. This is how you unstall stuff.
you have to compile it!!!

Linux for the people - yeah right!!!