Questions on switching to kubuntu

[ekwoodard]

I am not great with puters but have a basic understanding. i was considering downloading windows xp pro illegaly and was told about kubuntu and wanted to find out if itwill be suitable for my use. i have a acer aspire 5100-5840 which has 2 turion 64 tl-52 (1.6ghz, 2x512 kb l2 cache) 160 gb hdd and 2gb ddr2. i currently have vista home premium and hate it. i want the performance that should come with my puter.
here are the questions i have:
1. will i be able to operate the kubuntu system with my limited knowldge
2. what do i have to do to optomize my system using kubuntu
3. if i switch to kubuntu is it possible to remove the partitions from my hard drive
if you have answers please respond
thank you

[eriefisher]

Re: Questions on switching to kubuntu

The first thing I would do is download the live cd and boot from it just to test your hardware and familiarize yourself with it. You might find alot of your questions asked or not might be answered. Afterwards come back and get the rest of the info you need.

http://kubuntu.org/

eriefisher

[Rog131]

Re: Questions on switching to kubuntu

About XP vs Vista.

Maybe this interest you:
Microsoft to simplify downgrades from Vista to XP
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=543


And you can have both (Ms Windows and Linux) in the same computer


About K/X/Ubuntu.

Welcome

Here is good link:
Which *buntu to pick?
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/whichbuntu

1. will i be able to operate the kubuntu system with my limited knowldge

Yes - Kubuntu use KDE desktop and it is easy to use.

2. what do i have to do to optomize my system using kubuntu

Nothing - if you don't want to (Kubuntu should work out of box).

Lots of - If you want to (and know what you want.)
You can read Howto's and ask in the forum.

3. if i switch to kubuntu is it possible to remove the partitions from my hard drive

Yes - Look Gparted:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).

Even it says: Gnome Partition Editor - it works with KDE.

And there are
LiveCD

The power and simplicity of GParted on a biz-card size LiveCD.

The CD aims to be fast, small in size (~50mb), and use minimal resources
to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD is based
on Gentoo-catalyst, and uses Xorg,the lightweight Fluxbox window manager,
and the latest 2.6 Linux Kernel.

LiveUSB

GParted LiveUSB can be created from the iso LiveCD.
So there is no need to download another file !

As eriefisher said:
Dowload LiveCD/DVD and test it.

Also You can get CDs free from Kubuntu Shipit (https://shipit.kubuntu.org/) or you can buy Kubuntu on CD or DVD which delivers faster than Shipit (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu#buycurrent).


Note
There will be new version of K/X/Ubuntu. Release October 18th. It is now in the beta stage. More:
Gutsy Release Schedule and Plans
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3082873.0