How can I access directories of my computer?

Question

I installed Ubuntu and CDO. Now I am trying to locate my computer directories such as Desktop or Downloads but can't. From the terminal when I run cd and ls I only have two directories i.e home & user(neema). Perhaps I am missing something very basic here. Could anyone kindly help me out with this?

Secondly, I am trying to work with CDO from the R terminal and getting this error; any idea where am getting wrong?

/c/Users/nkita/Downloads
/c/Users/nkita/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpI7HPZa/chunk-code-e65814f2c58.txt: line 2: cd: /mnt/d/time_series/: No such file or directory
/c/Users/nkita/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpI7HPZa/chunk-code-e65814f2c58.txt: line 6: cdo: command not

Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. Please don't put screenshots of the terminal. Always copy the text of the terminal and directly paste it in your question. Then format the pasted text as code using the { } icon above the edit window. — user68186, Mar 17 '21 at 15:37
It seems you're using WSL, i.e., Ubuntu on Windows. If that's the case, see How to navigate to C drive in bash on WSL-Ubuntu?. Also, IIRC, there's no Downloads folder by default on Ubuntu WSL (though you can create later on). — Kulfy, Mar 17 '21 at 16:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 17 '21 at 16:11

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Try

cd /home/yourusername  # substitute your actual username

In Linux there is no C: drive, the / will get you to the root, and then you can find all you want

If you want it to look more like Windows then

sudo apt install gnome

edited Mar 17 '21 at 16:11

Kulfy

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answered Mar 17 '21 at 15:59

marc

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I'm not sure if the later part is applicable here since I believe questioner is using Ubuntu WSL. – Kulfy Mar 17 '21 at 16:13

How can I access directories of my computer?

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