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i dual boot Ubuntu and win XP pro
i would actually say that Ubuntu is a very nice distro to start on, its debian based, which is one of the easier distros to learn on, plus it comes with all of the necessary addons to make it a full desktop enviroment. then, when you feel comfortable, you can work your way deeper into the system and get used to things like BASH and other scripting languages, and other stuff like package managers and if you get into servers, server type software for web (such as apache and mysql) and mail (sendmail ws-imap) and the other wide array of software for different applications. if you wanna try it, i recommend just downloading and burning one of thei disks and booting into a live version (runs the OS off the CD, harddrives are untouched), many distros have this feature, so if you dont like ubuntu, check out wikipedia or there are a few other sites that list different types of distros.
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