spillage

Hi All, I see this post has gone towards the technical side a little. I must admit I skimmed though the pages but could not see a list of distros and software to use that have been confirmed as working. I would recommend not to use ubuntu but rather mint especially if you are coming from windows as mint has more of a windows look about it. But recommend if you need help go to the unbuntu forums as there seems to more help offered there (in my experience). Sorry I have used mint for several years so am bias. If you do no want to remove you copy of windows then you can use a usb pendrive and make a bootable persistant copy. This is easier than it sounds and simply you download a copy of linx and then create a usb using free software. When you plug in the usb and start up your pc you tell the pc to boot from the usb rather your hard drive and linx will start up. Normally any changes that are made are lost when the computer is shut down but a persistent drive will keep these changes. Once you restart the pc you normal windows will boot. This also means that if you use this on your laptop to capture images/video you can then just plug the usb into any other pc and carry on editing there.