Setup cgminer on Ubuntu 12.04 (im getting libudev.so.1 not found error)
Yes, NVidia Graphics card utilization versus naked CPU does help, quite a bit.

Breath. Take a step back.  Make sure you're running as an administrator. Try bashing


  sudo apt-get install libudev1


Use this wiki http://www.distrogeeks.com/install-cgminer-latest-ubuntu/

Don't get discouraged! It's tough but we've all gotta learn sometime, no better way to do it but to Do It.