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Originally Posted by Charlatan
It is being used for Web Browsing. Email (on the web). Simple word processing. Browsing Photos and videos. Not much else.
To use Ubuntu, does one download it, burn it to a disk and load it onto a freshly formatted hard drive or do I load it in addition to the existing OS?
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I also run Ubuntu on several machines at home. I got tired of paying M$ ... more in this thread:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-...ciding-os.html
It comes with Open Office so you'll have word processing and spreadsheets.
To answer your question about installing. You can do either. I dual-boot with XP on one machine because I need Windows (on that machine) for audio processing. I had a fresh install of Windows and then installed Ubuntu within which took care of the boot options later.
But since you want a clean install you'll download it and burn it to a CD. During the install you'll be asked if you want to delete any existing partitions (you do for a clean install). Make sure to back up any files you need.
You can also install VirtualBox and set up a virtual Windows machine within Ubuntu if you need access to things that Windows provides. This is how I converted my old iTunes files to non-DRMed MP3s. You don't have to stick with Windows ... you can install a lot of different virtual machines so you can experiment with different OSes.