Who can help me install linux?

they say linux is the safest OS ever. virus threats are less than windows. and it's free? where can i download the OS for free? but they also say that some (or many) programs dont work on linux. So, i still wanna have my windows os for running important program, and have linux for the internet. can i have 2 different OSs in my laptop? how? tell me the details please? how do i make another partition for os with partition magic? guide me step by step. Im sick with this sucky windows where i always get spywares and viruses, i have to scan it over and over again, reformat, it's really frustrating and f-u-c-k-i-n-g annoying (sorry). i always wanna crush my laptop every time it gets slower and slower because of viruses. i want linux. please help me.





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Who can help me install linux?
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Got to http://www.ubuntu.com and download the latest ubuntu iso. Isos are huge 600 MB or so and should take a few hours using cable internet. Using Daemon tools, poweriso or Nero burn the iso on to a CD. Now reboot and set your BIOS to boot from CD and put the Newly made ubuntu CD in the CD player. The ubuntu live CD will boot up an put you in a temporary ubuntu environment and if you chose ubuntu you should have the GNOME desktop come up which has a bar on top and bottom and a kind of orange coloring. Now on the top bar go to system and them I believe administration. In one of those (preferences or admin) there should be this partitioning tool in there called Disk partitioning utility or Gparted or some thing like that. Click on that. Gparted will start and scan your devices. Once it is done scanning get rid of all the partitions. Now your partition table can only have no more than four primary partitions so if you have more than 4 you need to make one partition an extended partition. The first partition should be primary and NTFS for windows. You can also create a FAT32 partition which if you look online you can mount the partition in Linux and use it as a shared drive between windows and linux. Then create an extended partition and inside that create a ext3 partition about 6GB, a linux-swap partition about 512MB-1GB and another one if you want a home partition, partitioned ext3. Now apply partitions and now you have nothing on your drive. Now exit out of ubuntu and throw your windows CD in. Boot into windows installation. When it comes to partitions pick the NTFS partition and do not format because it is already formatted. Install windows into the NTFS partition. Once you are done installing windows reboot and throw you ubuntu live CD in again. This time click install on the desktop and you will go on the installation for linux. When you get to the partitions goto manually edit partition table and skip through since you have already partitioned it correctly. Now go to the next screen and use your 6GB ext3 partition as / or root, your 512MB-1GB linux-swap partition as swap, and if you made a home ext3 partition (usually a lot bigger) use it as /home. Now click reformat for root and click install. When it is done it will ask you if you want to restart, do it. Next take the CD out and let it boot from the hard drive. It will come up with the grub screen allowing you to choose between windows or Linux.





Linux actually isn't as safe as people think, I get PC world every month and read tech news and there is about as many threats to Linux as to windows. The thing that make Linux different is that it is open sourced so they can clean up security holes way faster and more efficiently than windows does. Also stuff doesn't automatically start in Linux and you not really like to get something that will screw up your computer that easily.





Linux is a totally different operating system compared to windows. It uses UNIX style programs called ELF programs which have no file extentions. Windows uses PE programs which end in .exe. In order to use windows programs you have to get wine or cedega or crossover but they are not really reliable.