
If you are buying a new machine from a retail store, inquire of the salesperson and try it with the LiveDVD or USB drive while still in the returnable period. You may, however, have to change the boot order (as described below) to get your machine to start from the LiveDVD. If you already have your computer, you can easily do so by making a LiveDVD or USB drive (as described below) and starting the computer with it in the appropriate drive. Nonetheless, you should check if your hardware works with Ubuntu and meets the minimum system requirements. Ubuntu has been designed keeping in mind the most common hardware, so it is highly likely that Ubuntu will work on your machine without any problem. Further along, we will explain how to work with USB drives if the system has no DVD drive. We will initially assume that your computer has an standard optical drive that can read and write DVD disks. At present (March 2018), however, it does not explain some of the very important preliminary steps if you want to install Ubuntu alongside Windows. The official guide Ubuntu 16.04 Installation Guide covers a complete list of alternative installation methods for Ubuntu.

It is community created documentation, the work of many hands and minds convinced by their own experience that Linux is a superior operating system and deserves to be widely used. It concentrates on installing Ubuntu alongside a pre-existing version Windows so that, each time you start the computer, you can choose which operating system you want to use.


This guide explains some of the ways in which Ubuntu Linux can be installed to your desktop or laptop computer.

Changing the Boot Order in the UEFI Editor.Welcome to the Ubuntu Community Installation Guide!.
