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Please Help! Have been Finally Fed Up With Microsoft!

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Lead Head:
You cannot put a mac OS on a Pc because macs use there own specialo hardware, When/if you install ubuntu it should have an option to shrink the windows partition so you can have some space on ubuntu. You should be able to acces the windows files

Calum:
vmware (which is a PC emulator, it emulates the hardware of a PC) is fantastic, by the way, although it does cost money. however it has a lot of advantages over using a real PC to run windows (or any other OS) on, you get to change a lot of options that you would have to buy new hardware for if you were using a real machine.

toadlife:
Buy a Mac.

WMD:

--- Quote from: toadlife ---Buy a Mac.
--- End quote ---

Simple, yet worthy, advice. :thumbup:

Jenda:
You have really come to the right place.

I'll add a few comments:

--- Quote ---When/if you install ubuntu it should have an option to shrink the windows partition so you can have some space on ubuntu. You should be able to acces the windows files
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Yes, it does have the option. It uses fdisk, I think, and it has no problem whatsoever with NTFS partitions, which is what you prolly have if you use XP or win2k. Linux access to NTFS partitions is, however, read-only, so I would recommend (in case of a Linux(Ubuntu)-Windows dual boot) having four partitions. One (about 5 gigs, NTFS) for Windows, one (as big as you can, FAT32) for documents, work etc., and two more for Ubuntu(each about two and a half or three gigs), one for the system (/) and the other for your GNU/Linux documents and settings (/home). You might also want a swap partition, which is Linux's way of saying "virtual memory". That is usually twice the size of your RAM.

Ubuntu fills the purpose of a home desktop perfectly. I would suppose it would work OK for you too.

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