Currently Installing Ubuntu Linux

I've never really used Linux, I installed it once many years ago and there was such much messing about getting the partitions right that after installing it once I never bothered with it again.

Wondering if things had changed I thought I'd give it a go again and see how things have evolved. The flavour of Linux I've downloaded is the Ubuntu 10.11 version.


So far it's taken longer to install than XP and actually hung so I've had to re-format and start again. It got stuck installing the languages it had downloaded so I've disconnected it from my network so that won't happen this time!

Ignoring the above glitch, it seems fairly easy to install with none of the messing about you used to have to go through and the range of software out there is increasing by the hour.

I'm looking forward to testing some of the system tools that are available and booting from a USB Flash Drive rather than a Hard Disk Drive or CD/DVD.

Well, the installation says it's now complete and I need to restart - so here goes nothing...