Distro names are like Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora (and hundreds more besides). it is a longer name that says which distro and what version. But just a few more things for me to ask you to clarify: the Universal USB Installer will work fine. You have the right tool now to make your Linux USB. Hi and welcome to the forums! These guys have you on the right track, but when you are new to Linux it is sometimes hard to follow along as many things are different from Windows. I will be in and out during my Saturday morning here in Oz, but if someone else picks up the ball and runs with it, they will likely have good advice.īTW just noted Rob has entered the building, you are in safe hands, lol. Then in Windows, you can use Rufus or Yumi, or a Windows facility, to burn the iso to your removable medium. you could run it and provide us a with a link to the report it generates (no privacy issues involved), then we will know what we are dealing with. If you have not made the acquaintance of Pirifom Speccy in Windows, it is free to download from Once we get these preliminaries out of the way, we can move along more smoothly.

Architecture eg 32-bit or 64-bit (do you know which one applies to your Win 10?) will determine what iso to download and install. The 8GB of RAM is heaps for any Linux, the Pentium CPU may limit a few options but still leave you heaps of choices.

You then have to either change your startup order to boot usb or dvd ahead of hard drive, or temporarily change it using your function keys, eg F12 or F2 depending on computer, in order to get it to initialise and bring you to the install option. With Linux, you have to burn the iso to USB or CD/DVD, which then makes the medium bootable to install or test drive.

cab and have it self-extract and install. Linux is not like Windows where you can doubleclick a. As I suspected, that is your first hurdle to overcome.

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