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Originally posted by ToofDogger
I decided to switch my distro to Ubunto since Fedora apparently hates my system... I hear Ubuntu is really easy to use... Is there anything that I should know about installation? Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Ubuntu isn't any easier to use than Fedora or Mepis or Xandros or SuSE or Mandriva. It's not a matter of what's "easy," for the most part--it's about what recognizes your hardware best. Ubuntu recognizes all my hardware, so it's easy for me, but I've read plenty of posts about how Ubuntu couldn't get the sound or the external hard drive or the video card, etc. All that stuff worked for me and for a lot of people but not for everybody.
There's no magic distro that works for everybody's computer. Unfortunately, you do have to try out a bunch to see what works. I'd actually recommend Mepis. It's both a live CD and installer CD in one. So if the live CD recognizes your hardware and seems "easy" enough for you, you can just click the "install me" button on the desktop to install it.
Ubuntu's live and installer CDs are separate.
I would advise, though, that if you want to try out Ubuntu, you take a look at the Ubuntu Guide:
http://www.ubuntuguide.org