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You are perfectly fine in here as long as you wondering what distro to use. Once you picked one and have questions concerning its installation, proceed to the installation subforum. If your...

Before you are starting for a Linux journey, search the web if drivers for your printer and scanner are available. For picture editing the GIMP is the program to go, it's almost as good as Photoshop....

I suggest to try the Kubuntu LiveCD.

The most userfriendly distribution in my eyes is SuSE, its YaST will make you feel as if you were working with "System Settings" in Windows. If you buy the SuSE distro, you get even proprietary...

With that hardware it's less important what distro you choose (unless you go for SuSE which is a resource hog), but rather what packages you install.

As a desktop I recommend xfce, for internet...

Well, since you want it to be secure, I would recommend Gentoo. One reason is you can go for the hardened kernel plus Gentoo is very fast on delivering updates and fixes. On the other hand, if you...

It won't help you a whole lot since YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) ist SuSE specific. YaST is the tool that installs SuSE Linux on your computer and - once it is installed - serves as your "System...

Just start YaST and go to Install/Remove Software. On the left you should be able to switch to the search dialog. Before you install any piece of software, you should always check if it's available...

A common misconception by the average Linux newbie. In the Windows world you download software from the author's website and install it with a one-click install. In the Linux world, you only find the...

Yes, I noticed you have very decent/new hardware, so I'm not sure how good hardware support is for your setting. However, I can say that I didn't have any problems with hardware that sits inside the...

Most of us have used MS products for many years until they did the switch. Once you do it, however, you will find out that your knowledge of Windows is only limited help and Linux will look like an...