Phase 1, installling Linux.
If you are a PC user. Linux is very safe and easy to install these days.
I decided to go with the Ubuntu 7.04 from feisty fawn because it has sort of a Linux-for-dummies install, runs well with music, and has a lot of community documentation.
The install itself was totally easy. Just burn it to a disk and then reboot. You can even test out how it runs from the disk without installing anything.
The disk will walk you through everything including the partition. This is great for me because I haven't totally given up on XP and Microsoft. I was able to devote half of my 160 GB hard drive to linux. I then tested XP to make sure everything was still cool over there. XP was suspicious, but after looking around it decided to run as usual.
Great, so far nothing lost but one CDR!
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