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From: ac <"aec$news"@candt.waitrose.com>
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Ubuntu
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:25:51 +0000
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Wolfgang Fartbubble wrote:
> Moog wrote:
>> Wolfgang Fartbubble wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> At the moment I am running Win XP pro,
>>> I am thinking of going over to Ubuntu.
>>> How good is it?
>>> Are there many drivers for it?
>>> My system is Athlon 1.67 Mhz, 512 DDR ram, 80Gig HDD.
>>>
>>> At the moment I know nothing about Ubuntu or any part of Linux.
>>>
>>> TIA.
>>>
>>> Mike.
>> 
>> Hi Mike,
>> 
>> Download and burn the LiveCD image of Ubuntu.
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/products/GetUbuntu/download?action=show
redirect=download
>> 
>> Boot your PC from the CD and run Ubuntu. 
>> 
>> This way, you do not affect your current set up at all. You can then see for
>> yourself how good it is. I think it's brilliant by the way. But that is
>> just my opinion.
>> 
>> This will also mean you can see what hardware it picks up and doesn't. The
>> majority of your hardware will just run. If not, there are some helpful
>> people both here and ubuntu forums who can ease any hardware/software
>> problems for you, should you decide to install fully.
>> 
> Thank you all to the answers about Ubuntu.
> 
> Downloading it now.

Welcome!
I am delighted to hear you are trying Ubuntu!
Keep in mind that even though most things will be intuitive and easy 
and obvious - and should work well - experienced windows users (such 
as I used to be) may find great frustration at times because 
apparently simple (though slightly ambitious) requirements cannot be 
met within one's existing experience.

I found it useful to move to linux progressively, still using windows 
for a time for utility  during my learning process.

good luck, although you sound as if you don't need it,

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