[PLUG] I have no experience with installing Linux, can anyone help?

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Vedanta Teacher wrote:

> I just picked up a New In Box ASUS laptop 15.6' , Pentium, 4 gigs ram, 500
> gig hd. I'd like to completely strip off the factory 8.1 O/S and install a
> clean copy of Linux O/S but I don't know how.

> Note: I am quite literally up at 03:00 hours for work so I cannot make the
> 7:00 pm meeting but I can make the meeting Sunday the 20th @ 1:00 PM at
> Free Geek in S.E. Portland.

Paul,

   Bring it to the clinic. John has every linux distribution on an external
hard drive and there will be folks who can walk you through the installation
and getting started with linux.

Rich