Thank you. Yeah, my needs are pretty basic, so if it's as easy as you say, I shouldn't have any problems at all. Thanks for the info and I'll keep this post in case I do need to ask you something. Appreciate your help.
One other thought, if 'secure boot' is a thing on your hardware, which likely will be on anything made in the last 5 years, then you will likely need to disable this in the bios before linux will boot on it, once you've installed it.
Its a little trap that microsoft arranged with computer makers essentially, that make their stuff run but not others. Turn it off, and things are back to normal. All the more reason to justify getting rid of the Beast from Redmond.
So, work out how to get into the bios of your PC now, and where the secure boot setting is and how to switch it off. Normally, its by pressing ESC or F1 or holding down CRTL or ALT or something like that at power on.. it will be in the motherboard manual, and you can surely search online how to do it for your part as well.
Thank you. Yeah, my needs are pretty basic, so if it's as easy as you say, I shouldn't have any problems at all. Thanks for the info and I'll keep this post in case I do need to ask you something. Appreciate your help.
One other thought, if 'secure boot' is a thing on your hardware, which likely will be on anything made in the last 5 years, then you will likely need to disable this in the bios before linux will boot on it, once you've installed it.
Its a little trap that microsoft arranged with computer makers essentially, that make their stuff run but not others. Turn it off, and things are back to normal. All the more reason to justify getting rid of the Beast from Redmond.
So, work out how to get into the bios of your PC now, and where the secure boot setting is and how to switch it off. Normally, its by pressing ESC or F1 or holding down CRTL or ALT or something like that at power on.. it will be in the motherboard manual, and you can surely search online how to do it for your part as well.
Alright, thanks for the extra info.