[Nottingham] how to proceed

[John]

Reet

KUbuntu is doing my head in. It seems really clunky on a dual boot 
machine that runs XP fine ( well, as fine as XP can actually run!). I 
have stuck with it for a few weeks, however, I think it is me ~ I spent 
some time practicing on a laptop with Vector Linux, and I think I have 
subconsciously got used to XFCE, so I want to toast KUbuntu, and put 
XUbuntu on to make the learning curve more shallow. I find myself 
plotting death threats to the silly 'bubbles' that come up when I move 
my mouse around, rather than actually learning about Linux, which was my 
intention. Daft, I know, but I think I need to concentrate on the core 
Linux stuff rather than learning how to get a desktop environment to 
work the way I like it ~ I can always evaluate that aspect later. So.....


My current set-up on this machine is as follows; Primary HD on the 1st 
IDE channel, 2nd on the, er, 2nd. XP on the 1st, Linux on the 2nd. The 
boot loader (Grub?) is on the 1st. My plan is to drop to an XP recovery 
console, 'repair' the MBR, then toast the 2nd drive and finally go 
through the XUbuntu install process. I've got 80 GB of data on the 
primary, that I don't really want to have to shove over a wireless  
network to my NAS. Obviously, I'm taking a risk here, but that aside, 
does this sound like a good plan of action?


Any advice more than welcome. ( I really must try and get to a NLUG 
event....)