Just passing to say Hello

Hi, there.
Just passing by to salute users here.
I must confess my frustration with blender, I'm currently have installed about 90 aplications on my comp. And Blender is the only one I don't understand at all. Well, I'll keep reading and studying, hopefully I will be able to put a texture on a sphere some day.

I'm trying little by little steps... I know its powerfull.

You have to be patient, watch carefully the tutorials on the net (IMHO, the best ones are Apollos' on : the first one is about 1 hour long and mainly about the interface). Once you've understood the Object/Edit object concept, you're on the way.
Keep on trying, it is really worth the effort

I just wish that Blender had a alternative UI for SU users Thinking how popular SU is, I believe Blender would get huge amount of new users... if learning curve would be a bit easier for SU users.
Learning hot keys seems a way to Blender at the moment... there are plenty of those.
http://download.blender.org/documentati ... erence.pdf

@ notareal
I downloaded the Blender hotkey reference... now I'm really scared
Compare it with the SU Quick Reference Card and you'll see why

There is also a Help menu with a Hotkeys and Mouse Actions references entry (a script i wrote a long time ago but updated for each blender version, since 2003) in which you can find a lot of information about the Blender's methods. Use the Search to get all the shortcuts for zoom