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Where can I find information on how to use Ubuntu?

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Personally, I would suggest a small planet, called Earth, in the comfort of your place of choice, on a standard computer. :)... ~ The Unicorns – RolandiXor♦ Jul 3 '11 at 2:21
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I do agree with @Roland Taylor. The best way to learn Ubuntu is to just use it. If you run into problems you know where to ask ;) – Takkat Jul 3 '11 at 6:54
If your just starting to learn, I would recommend starting with XUbuntu first, in order to avoid all sorts of headaches you will have with the feature rich Ubuntu or KUbuntu distros. – djangofan Jan 6 '12 at 0:08
@djangofan: there are no headaches with Ubuntu at least not more than using Xubuntu or any other variant. Just a matter of taste. – Takkat Jan 6 '12 at 11:53

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The best place to learn how to use Ubuntu, is on your computer running Ubuntu. Most likely, you'll know what you want to do and you'll likely be able to accomplish most of it simply by exploring the system. But then you'll come across something that's difficult and there are some good resources when you're a new user:

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The best way to learn how to use ubuntu is to start using it. Soon as you encounter a problem, or have a question about ubuntu, look for the solution in google, or post your issue with this forum.

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Unofficial Ubuntu Guide Wiki

A very good place to learn the basics of how to get started, but it is very detailed break down of an Ubuntu system. Gives you the basics on how to get started w/ the terminal and on how to start installing/maintaining programs on an Ubuntu machine. It is a bit long but I definitely recommend giving the whole article a good look over; it has been very helpful for me when I first got started.

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if your unsure about using Ubuntu i would suggest try using it in a Virtual Machine - Download VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/) and make a basic virtual system (1GB ram for reasonable usage, 512MB absolute minimum, 7-10 GB of hard drive space).

Once done with that boot into the machine, select your ISO file when prompted for installation media, then install like you would on a normal machine (boot to the desktop, then click the install icon, follow the guide). Then just learn to use from there. If anything borks, you still have your previous OS.

alternatively try it from a LiveCD (but disk access performance will be rubbish since it is reading off a CD)

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