As you boot up from the flash drive you are given the choice to run it or install it. How to find this? You can run Ubuntu off the flash drive.

Instead you’ll see something like /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 and so on. Also note that in Linux (as in Unix) your drive will not labelled as a C: or D. Of course there is no harm in backing up your other drives as well which I did anyway when I was installing Ubuntu. The system drive is of course where you can install Ubuntu and if you have anything to be backed up there you must do so. By the way if you are installing Ubuntu Linux you do not even need to take a backup of your non-system drive i.e if you have partitioned your HDD or SSD into a c:(normally the system drive) and into other partitions such as D:, E:, F: etc., that hold the bulk of your valuable files. But after struggling with a lagging Windows 10 on my laptop last Friday I decided to install Ubuntu Linux. Maybe it was some of those made for Windows only applications that I was using heavily that I kept postponing the event.

I am not sure why I deliberated this long to go the Linux way as I have been planning for years.

Yes, my laptop has been resurrected! And yes, I am using the same laptop to write this. That’s the background image (one of several beautiful images that come shipped) of my laptop’s desktop after installing Manjaro 21.0 XFCE version called “ Ornara” that I installed on my decade old laptop last Saturday.

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