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Originally Posted by doubledragon5
While this my be true, you would think that will all the yrs, people have been developing this as a alternative to windows. That they would have by now developed a system that supports just about all hardware types.. Just a side not, I found and installed PClinuxOS and had no issue with the software finding and getting me connected on line.. It even found my printer that the other 3 I have tried was unable to do..
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Even with windows, you run into trouble. Like I said, it's not a linux-only thing.
As for the download, you can check the MD5 hash on the ISO. Should be quicker than re-downloading it. If it's corrupted or incomplete, the hash of your copy will not match the "official" hash value for the ISO.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes
When you install ubuntu, it will install the grub boot loader. From there, you should have the option of either booting into ubuntu or booting to windows (or jumping to the windows boot selection if you have more than one Windows OS installed)
Now, I have done the boot loader thing myself in a while, so I'm not exactly sure what the step-by-step process is. Though, it should've been fairly intuitive.
Either way, after installing ubuntu and you're starting up the PC, to enter grub when it does its 3-2-1 countdown, just hit esc, and you'll be brought to the grub options.