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Originally Posted by xpod

Sounds good.Keeping everything seperate is great but i just dont like seeing people trying linux & possibly getting peeved off just becuse of any needless complexity(unfamiliarity)...not on first outings anyway.

Perhaps, but I have dabbled [briefly] with it in the past, usually when I'd got a new HDD, so was free to just fiddle around with it for a while, before wiping it & using it for Windows &/or general storage. To me, the whole idea of seperate root, swap, & home partitions makes more sense, as I've been doing the same sort of thing with Windows for ages.

Originally Posted by xpod

I know there are people who actually take their Windows drives out(disconnect) when installing Linux on second drives.Then they just use their f12(or similar?) at start up for choosing which drive to actually boot.

If I had a spare drive I might consider it I suppose, but in this instance it's not really practical.

Originally Posted by xpod

It's only awkward when it's not familiar m8.(more understatements eh)
Your just used of doing things a certain way,with certain terms.
If you ever find yourself having "used" linux for anywhere near as long as you've used Windows(?) then i'm sure those hd0's & sda's will be just as easy to understand as those familair ole C's & 'Ds.

So I've got to wait 10 years before Linux makes sense?

Originally Posted by xpod

You could always install KDE once your up & running if you want but either way never be put off by looks.Any Linux can be made to look any way you want really.

I know I could put KDE on afterwards, it's just that whilst messing about with the Kubuntu Live CD, it seemed somewhat unstable, compared to Gnome & XP.

Originally Posted by dragon

Its actually very logical when I think about it, makes the windows way of doing things seem silly.

I do see your point, & agree, to an extent, it's just that they use 2 different systems [*da1, & hd0] & don't bother to explain the difference. Based on logic & experience I guessed what it probably meant, but that's my whole point: I shouldn't have to guess. Would it kill them to add tooltips, a "help on this view/window" button, or just some text at the bottom of the window? I know there's a bunch of things that are less than perfect in Windows/Windows software, but that doesn't mean designers of Linux GUIs should automatically dismiss some of the ways of doing things that are well established in Windows GUIs.

I know there are still some "hardcore" Linux users who prefer to do as much as possible with the command line interface, but for distros that are aiming for mass appeal [*buntu], especially if they want to win over more Windows users, they need to do a lot more work on the user-friendliness side of things.

Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

I've just installed Kubuntu & ended up downloading the alternative CD. The graphical install one wanted GRUB to take over my MBR, with no other option...

What other options are there, besides GRUB taking over the MBR? & how non-graphical is the alternative CD anyway? Does it require knowing a whole bunch of linux terminal commands?