Okay, I've been trolling/lurking these forums for a while now and haven't as of yet grasped something basic. I blame windoze and all its installers/wizards for this mostly. How, in the linux world, does one install applications or updated drivers? I don't need it down to the nitty gritty, just a macroscopic view'd be nice. Is it just a matter of unpacking a tarball, moving some files, and updating some configuration files? Has it been that bleedingly obvious? It's sad it's taken me this long to ask but I've not seen anything quite like it asked in the past.

'Goon