<div dir="ltr">Hey Fred,<div><br></div><div style>You can download one of the popular Linux Distro's, boot of the cd/dvd and just follow the install procedure.</div><div style>Most modern linux install processes will deal with the windows partition, and allow you to dual boot. (and set that up for you)</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Not had any experience with Win 8 yet (don't think I will), thus I cannot say 100% if dual boot setup works with it out-the-box like that, or if you need to do 'stuff' to make it work. <br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>As a first time linux user, I would highly recommend Linux Mint as your first step. From experience I had found that windows users find it easy to adapt to that distro.</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>ref: <a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/">http://www.linuxmint.com/</a></div><div style><br></div><div style>Welcome to Linux.</div><div style><br></div><div style>-Lucas</div><div style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Paul Del <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p@delfante.it" target="_blank">p@delfante.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hey Fred<div><br></div><div>Please send your emails to the mailing list. Not committee ;-)</div><div><a href="http://plug.org.au/resources/mailing-list" target="_blank">http://plug.org.au/resources/mailing-list</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><div>If your wanting to install Linux on a notebook all good.</div></div><div>Make sure you include brand/model/type of your notebook</div><div><br></div><div>There may be a problem with this new secure boot being locked to Ms Windows</div>
<div><a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/microsoft_secure_boot.html" target="_blank">http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/microsoft_secure_boot.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>There is guys in the group who will know more about that</div>
<div>Ciao</div><div><br></div><div>></div><div>></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Hi Perth Linux Guru's,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Apologies if I am using the wrong forum for this but I have only just discovered your site ;)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">I have recently bought a Win 8 notebook PC and want to install Linux on it so that i can have the choice of using Windows or Linux as the OS. I understabd that this is not very straight forward as Win has a security set - up which needs to be turned off and my research on the net has not been conclusive. I have not used linux yet but would like to. Can you pse advise on this subject?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Kind Rgds,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Fred</span><br>
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:27 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chieftiff@gmail.com" target="_blank">chieftiff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Fred sent a message using the contact form at <a href="http://www.plug.org.au/contact" target="_blank">http://www.plug.org.au/contact</a><u></u>.<br>
<br>
Hi Perth Linux Guru's,<br>
Apologies if I am using the wrong forum for this but I have only just discovered your site ;)<br>
I have recently bought a Win 8 notebook PC and want to install Linux on it so that i can have the choice of using Windows or Linux as the OS. I understabd that this is not very straight forward as Win has a security set - up which needs to be turned off and my research on the net has not been conclusive. I have not used linux yet but would like to. Can you pse advise on this subject?<br>
Kind Rgds,<br>
Fred<br>
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