I see lots of Linux talk in here and I need to be in the know, I just need help getting there. I had installed Ubuntu with WUBI on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite C665, AMD Athlon II P320 Dual-core processor 2.10 GHz, 3.00GB Ram, 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium), but without having a clue as to what I was doing, I didn't like it. Last night I was reading in a thread that suggested I do some things with restricted drivers to speed it up (slow program load times was 1 of my biggest complaints) but I'd already uninstalled.
So, I'm wanting to give it another go. I would just like some suggestions for a complete noob on how to get started. I need to have the option to boot into Windows still (for work, we use Quickbooks and a few other programs on Windows). Mainly I'll need Word Processing, Excel compatible spreadsheets, and GIMP, and I'd love it to run faster than my Windows environment. Any suggestions towards which distro, best install methods, and any tweaks that should be made are extremely appreciated.
So, I'm wanting to give it another go. I would just like some suggestions for a complete noob on how to get started. I need to have the option to boot into Windows still (for work, we use Quickbooks and a few other programs on Windows). Mainly I'll need Word Processing, Excel compatible spreadsheets, and GIMP, and I'd love it to run faster than my Windows environment. Any suggestions towards which distro, best install methods, and any tweaks that should be made are extremely appreciated.