Hello! New to linux, question about inst. requirements.

[Arturofm]

Hi, I was reading many opinions about the swap and the hard drive and everything else, so could someone tell me how to install the latest version? What space for what partition and the swap and the boot and everything.

I have 3 hard drives, 2 SSD (250 & 500 GB) and the other 1TB SATA.

Also so I don't make another post, I read that spotify and chrome give problems on linux? How do I install them since I don't have the .exe anymore

Thanks

[claydoh]

http://docs.kubuntu.org/docs/installation.html

You should have at a minimum 2gb ram, but 4 or more is better.
Disk space is up to you - the bare minimum I would suggest is 15 gb, but if you are an experimenter or even mildly curious and will install lots of software and do lots of things, I would suggest a lot more. 32 gb for starters then. Swap is generally said to be at least the size of your ram, but really only if you use hibernation. Then 2gb or so is ok. If you have a huge amount of ram you could even go without swap.

BUT I would not worry yet about partitioning and all that if you are just getting started. If you have plenty of space on your first hard drive, let the installer take care of everything for you - it will resize things for you and take care of the swap too , and you do not have to have separate partitions for everything.


Tell us a little more about your hardware and how your drives are set up, which Windoes version and any other OSs you already have installed and which drive you'd like to install Kubuntu to. . it generally is easy to install, but having extra info will help those of us who may have similar specs and setups let you know what they had to do and give pointers.

[Arturofm]

I forgot to give the full details

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K 3.40GHz
16GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti (How do I download the drivers for this one? Will it be included)
250 SSD, 500 SSD and 1 TB SATA

I have my info stored in the 1TB and I'm using windows 10, so... how do I have to get an external hard drive or I can just install linux on 1 SSD and it will recognize the 1 TB autom.?

I read in the guide you have me that the swap has to be at least half of the ram, what do you recommend me? And can you guide me through a manual disk partition setup please? Is it posible to make the 1 TB the /home without formating it? Otherwise I would lose the information, right? I already created the usb with UNetbooting, waiting for part 2

Thanks again

Pd: What kind of scripts does this forum loads? I'm getting this lol: "This page is trying to load scripts from unauthenticated sources"

[elijathegold]

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K 3.40GHz
16GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti (How do I download the drivers for this one? Will it be included)
250 SSD, 500 SSD and 1 TB SATA

Nice. With this setup you you won't need swap unless you plan to use hibernate or do lots of very memory intensive tasks. To hibernate, you will need at least 16GB.

I have my info stored in the 1TB and I'm using windows 10, so... how do I have to get an external hard drive or I can just install linux on 1 SSD and it will recognize the 1 TB autom.?

If I understand you, Windows installed on one of the SSDs and data on 1TB SATA . You can install Linux of the other and set it up to use the 1TB as you wish

I read in the guide you have me that the swap has to be at least half of the ram, what do you recommend me?

See my comment above. I remember reading somewhere that the Linux kernel works more efficiently with a bit of swap space than it does with none. I have never been able to find the article again and no-one believes me so even though I have 16GB ram I set up a 2GB swap partition on the chance it wasn't a dream.

And can you guide me through a manual disk partition setup please? Is it posible to make the 1 TB the /home without formating it? Otherwise I would lose the information, right?

You could possibly use it as your home directory but if it is formatted NTFS I wouldn't recommend it even if I knew it would work. Linux and Windows have very different permission systems so it could end up borking both. A better solution would be to create a home partition and after installation sort out mounting the drive using the NTFS driver. If you choose to format it then yes, the data would be gone, but you do have a backup right? You should also consider that Windows doesn't recognise Linux formatted drives.

Pd: What kind of scripts does this forum loads? I'm getting this lol:"This page is trying to load scripts from unauthenticated sources"

Don't know. I use noscript to block any unnecessary scripts.

[Arturofm]

Nice. With this setup you you won't need swap unless you plan to use hibernate or do lots of very memory intensive tasks. To hibernate, you will need at least 16GB.

I do hibernate, I hate to open all the pdf books and windows for school all over again hahah

See my comment above. I remember reading somewhere that the Linux kernel works more efficiently with a bit of swap space than it does with none. I have never been able to find the article again and no-one believes me so even though I have 16GB ram I set up a 2GB swap partition on the chance it wasn't a dream.

hahha maybe it was a dream xDD, I'll leave 16GB to make sure, I don't care much about space, porn days and games are over hahahEdit: I'm experimenting on my laptop first and I'm seeing that linux recognizes wind. partitions but windows doesn't even know that linux exists., On linux I have to click to load it, so... I guess for what I want I have to format the 1 TB.Thanks I have an idea now

[logan01]

I don't have spotify but have no issues with Chrome with Kubuntu 14.04.

[GreyGeek]

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/01/h...tu-12-04-12-10 is an article several years old but updated in January of this year which gives the two commands needed to add the Spotify repository to your sources.list.
It should contain the 1.x beta. Development of Spotify for Linux stopped last September. So, you may want to consider installing WINE or PlayOnLinux (POL) to install the latest Windows version.

[Arturofm]

I added spotify from the main web and it's working fine, it crashed the first time but now it's "stable".

I love linux so far. I messed up the visual style and trying to fix it I came up with a mix of dark breeze + the clear one very cool. It looks awesome! I was reading that now there is a 2% of the users excluding androids, that use linux, that's interesting...anyways...

By the way I had to reinstall it like 7 times because there was some problems with the hard drives.. I really don't understand why I had to force it, it should have been smooth. This is what I chose:

Primary / (on the 250GB SSD)
Logical /home (on the 1 TB)
Logical SWAP (16 GB)

I have a couple of questions, minor details:

-I installed wine on the web: winehq.org is that official one? I tried installing a simple game to try it out and it didn't work out, I had to use playonlinux. And how can I resize the apps on the desktop?
-Also how can I hide the trashcan folder on the desktop?

Sorry I keep adding stuff, what do I choose for drivers?



Thanks for the help