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I landed in this forum via the The Beginner Team has started thread over in Absolute Beginner Talk. I am about 3 weeks into Linux and it has been a steep learning curve to transition from my Windows Ways. Like most who are beginners, I've spent countless hours scouring through Google, Ubuntu docs, this forum et al. This is the info I'd like to see for new Linux folks:

1/ Drive designations. Specifically how Linux drive nomeclature of hda1, hdb2 and hd0,0 works.

2/ How to Dual boot in Win. The percentage of users who are going to dive head first into Ubuntu and ditch Win completely would be small IMO.

3/ Folder/directory naming conventions. /lib /bin - how does this translate to Win? https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/directories-file-systems.html

4/ Ensure the Official Docs (https://help.ubuntu.com/) are easy to find. This is a great resource but somehow I found hard to find ... or rather easily overlooked.

I found the following link today for the first time. This needs to be front and center!

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows

------------------ Thanks for all of the work and support to help keep this community going!

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NJC said: I landed in this forum via the The Beginner Team has started thread over in Absolute Beginner Talk. I am about 3 weeks into Linux and it has been a steep learning curve to transition from my Windows Ways. Like most who are beginners, I've spent countless hours scouring through Google, Ubuntu docs, this forum et al.

Welcome, this is what we are here to help with :p

I'll give you a few links that I hope will help :

This is the info I'd like to see for new Linux folks:

1/ Drive designations. Specifically how Linux drive nomeclature of hda1, hdb2 and hd0,0 works.

HowTo: Partitioning Basics

2/ How to Dual boot in Win. The percentage of users who are going to dive head first into Ubuntu and ditch Win completely would be small IMO.

I'll give you 3 :

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installing

Install form alternate CD: http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/

3/ Folder/directory naming conventions. /lib /bin - how does this translate to Win?

https://help.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/directories-file-systems.html

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?&t=258611

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/FileLocations

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

4/ Ensure the Official Docs (https://help.ubuntu.com/) are easy to find. This is a great resource but somehow I found hard to find ... or rather easily overlooked.

I agree. I would like to increase the awareness of the ubntu wiki and UDSF on the forums.

I found the following link today for the first time. This needs to be front and center!

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows

------------------ Thanks for all of the work and support to help keep this community going!

Yea, that is a nice link.

Hope those links help you. Feel free to ask if you have further questions.