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Laptops: 1. Dell Latitude 2. Toshiba Tecra 3. Acer Aspire 4. HP Pavilion 5. Lenovo ThinkPad Desktops: 1. Lenovo ThinkCentre 2. HP EliteDesk 3. Dell OptiPlex Desktop/laptop OS: 1. Ubuntu 2. SUSE Linux 3. Windows 10 Pro 4. OpenIndiana 5. Fedora 6. Mageia 7. GhostBSD 8. PC-BSD Mobile OS: 1. Android 2. Windows 10 Mobile 3. iOS 4. Blackberry 10 Browsers: 1. Vivaldi 2. Opera 3. Firefox 4. Internet Explorer 5. Microsoft Edge 6. Google Chrome 7. Safari Recommended online music locker: 1. Amazon 2. Google Play 3. Groove Music 4. iTunes Office 1. LibreOffice 2. Microsoft Office 3. Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides Cloud store: 1. Dropbox 2. Google Drive 3. OneDrive 4. iCloud Anything I missed? You can say so in the comment.

Go to Administrative tools , and open Disk Management . Select the local drive. Shrink the NTFS partition (the larger the disk capacity, the more you should shrink), and don't format the unformatted space yet. Go to the distributor's website, and download the UNIX(OpenIndiana, GhostBSD, or TrueOS is recommended) or Linux(recommended distributions are Ubuntu, Linux Mint, MEPIS, Fedora, CentOS, and OpenSUSE) disk image. Burn it onto a CD or DVD, or alternatively install it onto a USB using Universal USB Installer or UNetBootin. There is also Win32 Disk Imager along with other alternative programs. Linux can read from and write to NTFS and FAT filesystems, but cannot boot from them. Linux s from a UNIX file system. UNIX filesystems have inodes. Ext3 has long been the standard filesystem for Linux, but ext4 is replacing it. There are also Btrfs, ReiserFS, Reiser4, and XFS. You might like to have a separate root(Btrfs) and home(ext3, ext4 or XFS. Probably 1.5 times the size of th...

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