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Yeah. That's why I like my XPS system. Came with a copy, and I burned it twice, no problemo. Even my copy of 7 I have a burnt copy of.
 
No worries. I'll start bothering you about it in November, because we're building a rig for my ex roommate for Christmas.
 
Ah, piece of cake!  I'll get you fixed up.

So, starting this past Friday, the guy I work with handed me a book on how to write html, and I've been playing with that.  I can make one really boring web-page.  :)
 
Yeah, its kinda cool.  Might as well learn something, right?  These guys have built the various websites for the bank; they have  good understanding of it all.  So, I'm learning so I can help edit.
 
I did some basic html a good number of years ago, I'm pretty sure I forgot all of it...

Anyway, I've got a recovery disk for Windows, so that shouldn't be a problem. I guess the most feasible thing to do is installing a dual boot, just in case something goes horribly wrong. My brother suggested installing a 2GB RAM version (or whatever) even though I only have one GB "because you will want to upgrade to 2GB"... I'm a bit wary, because I really don't want it to run anything else but smoothly, how do you guys reckon?
 
I'm taking into consideration that the most memory intensive things I do is watch Youtube and have a glimpse at Google Earth occasionally. As for gaming, the most recent thing I play is Quake3.
 
Sounds ok to me.

What don't you like about your Win7 Starter?  I'm not familiar with that version, honestly.
 
Wasted CLV said:
What don't you like about your Win7 Starter?  I'm not familiar with that version, honestly.
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Given that I've only used it for a few hours now, I can't say it all yet. Mostly, a few reviews had turned me off. Then I tried to install Open Office, which failed because of some weird error. I tried troubleshooting it, and people on the net suggest downloading new C++ libraries from the Microsoft websites (the files were corrupted!) and running an upgrade (which failed for unknown reasons).
That's enough for me, really. I need Open Office (MS Office would be OK, but I don't have a copy lying around anymore) and if there's trouble with problem solving right from the start, you can tell that it just won't work.
 
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Something that I would consider, if it doesn't seem too big a pain, is to add another partition on the HDD== IIRC, you can go to 'computer' and rite click on c: then take the option that says 'shrink'... give it about 1 gig, and you can install the Linux on that one.
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When installing Linux, it does take you through a wizard to select a partition or create one or even wipe the whole disk and stick Linux on it.

Wasted CLV said:
I've used Ubuntu, cause its pretty easy to download and install, but Albie may know of other Linux software out there that may work better.
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I have tried a few other Linux OS's and settled on Ubuntu. I doubt if I would try something else, although I have heard that Fedora is pretty good (from what I understand, Mozilla test Thunderbird on Fedora). I did try Fedora, but the Wireless bit was poor and did not always come back on.

Wasted CLV said:
One thing, I haven't used Ubuntu much lately, but IIRC, you may have a hard time running anything that is .exe on it.
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There's is always Wine. :D

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But, one nice thing about Ubuntu is that it comes with Open Office on it, so that's really easy to use (in place of using MS products).
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True, but you can d'load Open Office for Windows as well.

@Perun: To install Linux, you just need to d'load the .iso from the distributor (obviously) - but, again I know it sounds obvious, only get the .iso image from the distributor themselves. If you google "Ubuntu download" and you end up on a site that is not something like http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ it may not be safe. Like I say, it sounds obvious but people do get caught out on this. Installing it is fairly pain free - you just need to be aware of how you are creating the partition, if you are dual-booting, for the Linux OS. Ubuntu has 7 steps in their installation wizard and it is pretty self explanatory what you need to press and when. If you dual-boot, you will need to set up two partitions - one for the OS and one for the Swap partition (the swap partition is the Virtual RAM and needs to be something like twice as much as the physical RAM although it is rarely used, unlike Windows and their pagefile). If the HP has a recovery partition, you can put both partitions on that - there should be space. Linux OS does not need a huge partition, but this depends where you want to keep your files. When I dual-boot, I tend to create a partition of 10GB for the Linux OS and whatever for the Swap partition and the rest for the Windows NTFS drive - which is where all my files are kept. Without some extra Windows software, you will not be able to see any of the Linux partitions data which is why I do it in this fashion. If you choose not to dual-boot, partitions are normally created automatically.
 
@Per:  That is weird.

The only thing that comes to mind is if you logged in as an Admin-- but IIRC, you were running Vista before, and you had a really good handle on the admin features.

That does suck, I've never had a prob with OO, but I know what you mean by getting tired when the first few things you try fail...

@Albie... yes, I really do want to try Wine, I just haven't dipped my toe in yet. ;)
 
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