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I had Ubuntu vs. XP dual-boot. Just make sure you do not sacrifice the wrong partition.
I would recommend defragmenting your hard disk and manually create two new partitions using PMagic, and then in Ubuntu installer, to configure manually where it should be installed. [System, Swap, your data (optional]) If you have too much bloat in your HDD, the GPartED resize process might fail resulting loss of data because disk/partition has been fragmented too much.
I've created a emergency partition too, formatted as FAT32. Comes handy in some situations
Seeing as I'm new to Ubuntu, I'd like to ask a question here. When I go to "Restricted Drivers" It says that the Nvidia accelerated graphics driver is disabled. When I go to enable it I get a message:
Bobalandi wrote:It's pretty good, but the thing I don't like about any linux distro is the problem of getting wireless cards to work.
A lot of distros these days have NetworkManager by default (Fedora 8 does definitely), which helps a lot with wireless set up. Fedora 8 has worked without any additional configuration with all the wireless cards I've tried.
NetworkManager just abstracts away from the user having to configure his/her card with iwconfig or wpa_supplicant. It's of no use if he/she cannot get the card to work in the first place.
It was one of the first linux distrobutions I ever used with a GUI and it worked flawlessly (I started on Slackware 3.3 =)). On every computer I installed it on, it booted up with full network support and no issues at all right after install. It was almost surpising to see a *nix distro be good-to-go right after the install, usually there is SOME sort of issue with drivers or networks support.
The only other good major distro in my opinion would have to be Ubuntu or Kubuntu (I like KDE & Gnome equally).
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