I have no experience in the installation of operating systems, but I have a good idea of how to do it. I'm not looking to partition my drive, so I'll probably burn myself a live disc to boot from. I was wondering which distribution pack I should use? One that is fairly user-friendly and simple to install. Please, no Wubi. I tried it and it didn't work for me.
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Ubuntu. Supports the most hardware out of all of them and is the simplest to use! It is made for Begginners and comes with a LiveCD.. Couldnt recommend any other os for newbies! (Although i additionally use Fedora and CentOS)
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It's a different operating system, like Windows and OS X.
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Either the above mentioned Ubuntu or go the route my sister switched to under my guidance and she can't be happier. The distro LinuxMint is based off Ubuntu down to the repositories for key components and is almost the same as Ubuntu. But, it already has more drivers and like things preinstalled and configured, one being the ability to play encrypted retail DVD movies.
LinuxMint has also been easier in having more drivers and like components already built in and all Ubuntu forum help works the same.
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Quote: from espresso8097 at 12:09 pm on June 19, 2008
Either the above mentioned Ubuntu or go the route my sister switched to under my guidance and she can't be happier. The distro LinuxMint is based off Ubuntu down to the repositories for key components and is almost the same as Ubuntu. But, it already has more drivers and like things preinstalled and configured, one being the ability to play encrypted retail DVD movies.
LinuxMint has also been easier in having more drivers and like components already built in and all Ubuntu forum help works the same.
I agree...since I'm the sister. The main selling point for me was LinuxMint has better wireless support. And I've got a laptop, so I needed wireless to work. That, and I didn't have to install video/audio codecs manually. They were already working with the OS install. That, and I like the look of it better. But since it's entirely Ubuntu based, all the tech forum advice for Ubuntu also works in LinuxMint.
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get wubi and install it it'll download the ubuntu iso then it'll install
reboot the computer and it'll install on the linux side of things
when you want it off just uninstall wubi
no partition trouble involved
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