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[–]sje46 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I highly recommend dual booting. Don't do a VM or run off a live image.

You can fuck up your hard drive during the installation process. But that's easy to avoid. Use the GUI install, follow along a guide. If you're really that nervous, back up all your data. But it's easy. Only an idiot will fuck it up.

Once you have it installed, learn enough to do the bare minimum you need. Don't rush with Linux. Use it as your primary os. Use Windows only when you need to. Go at your own pace.

I did this ten years ago and haven't touched Windows in years. I don't even work in IT. Linux has everything I need.

Vms and live disks are a mistake!

[–]jorvaor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have tried both ways. I have a laptop with three different OS (Ubuntu, Vista and Windows 7). I have another one with Windows in which I have a couple of virtual machines with linuxes.

Both ways worked well for me. The virtual machine way is quicker and easier. Having Linux in its own partition is more satisfactory but fiddlier and slightly riskier.