I'm in my 40's and heard the words Linux for years without ever looking into it. So here I am as green as grass, excited about my new journey.
For 2 days straight I've been going around in circles trying to understand installation. So, without further a do, I'll put my questions out here.
This is a new machine with clean installation of Win 10 on a 120 gb ssd m.2. ASUS z170p mobo, 16gb 2400 DDR4 RAM. i7 6700.
Also have my 1TB SATA HDD with Win 7 installed on it (I didn't want to delete it till I knew Win 10 was ok-this drive is partitioned with hundreds of gb's of data on, so simply removing the partition isn't possible; is it ?)
I have downloaded Ubuntu Studio 16.04 and put it on a 64gb USB 3.0 drive and plugged into a USB 3.0 port. I've managed to work out how to change bios etc...
So, where am I now ? I can Live boot to Studio. I can also live boot directly to install. My problem is what to do next. It's taken me a full day to figure out why my interface is different to every single other video installation out out there. (actually I still don't know why my color scheme is different. Mine is Grey while every other with I've seen is burgundy/purple/brown? ) I had no option to press the '+' button in the Partition bit to change Primary, Logical, ext4 etc. Turns out it was because I created a New Volume and formatted in Windows, instead of leaving it.
What I would really appreciate is a full on rundown to get this dual booted and installed along Win10 (until i know i can live without it) on my 120gb ssd. I have already partitioned it down to 30GB for Win 10 leaving around 90GB for Ubuntu. However I may have too many Primary Partitions now!
Latest problem was Unusable space after i created (
/) partition. I'll make matters worse if I go over everything so I'm not assuming I actually know anything from here on in.
Would one of you kind people be willing to walk me through this process?
