I switched from windows to Ubuntu yesterday and I'm just starting. I had two partitions on windows as it's normal there and I left as it was. I want to install software on Local Disk :D, not C, but I have no idea about the solution. Can anyone help me?
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On Linux (and Unix in general) you do not have drive letters.
You have a root, /, with everything under the root.
For instance a lot of software goes into /usr/, while your user owned files goes into /home/username/, configuration files in /etc/ and so forth.
Any directory may be a mount point, so yo can have one partition for /usr, one for /, and one for /home. But I wouldn't recommend that for a newbie, as it easily ends up with a lot of wasted disk space.
What I would suggest is to have one partition for / and one for /home. This way you can keep all your personal files across upgrades or reinstalls easily.
The windows model doesn't apply at all to Unix in general. So forget what you know about partitioning from Windows, and run with one partition (~50-100GB) for / and one for /home (the rest of the disk).
Note that you have probably not kept the disk partitions from Windows, as Ubuntu will probably not install to a NTFS disk.
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