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Beginning Ubuntu for Windows and Mac Users: Start Your Journey into Free and Open Source Software
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Beginning Ubuntu for Windows and Mac Users: Start Your Journey into Free and Open Source Software

by Nathan Haines
December 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
291 pages
7h 38m
English
Apress
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N. HainesBeginning Ubuntu for Windows and Mac Users https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8972-3_1

1. Installing Ubuntu

Nathan Haines1  
(1)
Lake Forest, CA, USA
 

All things considered, installing an operating system should really be difficult and arcane. It controls your computer. After starting everything up, it loads the drivers, runs every program, orchestrates how software and hardware work together, provides the computer-user interface , and determines how you will work with your machine.

But it’s not.

Those days are over. Long gone are the days when you’d have to feed the computer the Initial Program Loader from punch cards, paper tape, or magnetic tape. ...

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