If you are not able to download the ISO image and burn it to a live CD/DVD or create a bootable USB drive, you can purchase a CD/DVD or preloaded USB drive from the Canonical Shop. Click here to see a guide for creating a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu. Click here to see an excellent guide from Ubuntu on how to do burn a live CD/DVD. Burn the downloaded ISO image to a blank CD-R/ DVD-R disk to create a live CD/DVD, or create a bootable USB drive.If you have a netbook, you can click here to learn how to install Ubuntu on netbooks . An alternate way to try out Linux is through software such as VirtualBox, which allows you to create “ virtual machines” on your existing operating system. Before you install a Linux distro side-by-side with Windows in a separate partition, or install Linux in the place of Windows, it is strongly recommended that you try it out thoroughly with a live CD/DVD/USB drive. The installation may be done side-by-side with Windows by dual partitioning the hard drive, or you may simply erase everything on your hard drive and replace Windows with a Linux distro. While running a Linux distro completely from a live CD/DVD/USB drive, no changes will be made to your existing Windows operating system or to any of the files on your hard drive unless you choose to install. This lets you try them out on your computer to see if you like them, as well as to determine if they work well with your particular computer hardware. In many cases installing Linux is easier than installing Windows! A large number of distros such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Linux Mint, OpenSUSE, PCLinuxOS, Peppermint OS, and Puppy Linux allow users to run their operating systems completely from a live CD/DVD, or even from a USB drive .
The initial thought of installing Linux on your computer may seem overwhelming, but it is really quite simple.
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