I'm really a computer novice so I apologize in advance. I have an old Dell Latitude that I wiped clean and installed 14.04. I thought it would install just like the older version has on my desktop. But after the installation, I receive the login prompts just in the terminal mode. I figured out the easy part to enter my login name and password, but that is about it. The next prompt lists "username@hostname:~$" and I have no idea what to do next. I thought I would get regular login page (like in Windows) and have a desktop. If anyone can help me through this process of what type of code(s) I need to enter next to get this thing up and running that would be appreciated.
(p.s. I also really wanted to install the 12. version but just got the DVD now). So if that version is easier to use than the 14 version, please advise the best way to install that over the current version.
Thank you so much.