I`v no idea, I did find a bitcoin-qt in my downloads directory in the BIN folder along with others including the bitcoind (which is running fine), I tried running the Bitcoin-qt binary and it does nothing!? I tried opening it with other things and those just gave me errors.
it just doesn`t seem to want to run? and non of the others do either, it`s only bitcoind that works?
as for directories and stuff, I have no idea where anything is or even how to move around them or find them, it`s totally alien to me. and to top it all off, it turns out that closing the lid on my laptop turns the wifi off!

I can`t find any setting anywhere to change this, unless it`s in the BIOS somewhere? but I can`t find anything in ubuntus settings.
176Gb downloaded now, and it looks like I`m going to have to keep the lid open 24/7 to run as a node now, NOT what I wanted! *sigh*