I'm taking the plunge!
After ten years away from IT - I'm jumping off the Windows ship.
Well - sort of.
My 4 year old Dell laptop died (on board hard drive controller) so I replaced it with a cheap HP.
Problem #1 - the HP only has 4 GB of RAM.
That's nowhere near enough.
HP makes you jump through fire in order to add RAM to their notebooks - so - I figured it's the right time for Linux.
Ubuntu seems to be the best place to start - so - I plan to download it.
I might just run it from a USB stick - or - I'm thinking I may use my old laptop - with 16 GB of RAM - and install it onto a USB drive & boot the old system to that.
So question #1 is:
Is Ubuntu the best place to start? My Unix is extremely rusty - extremely. (LOL! How does one exit Vi? I clearly can't recall! )
#2 - can I run Linux from a USB stick? (99.9% sure I can)
#3 - supposing I can run it from a memory stick - can I install VNC server on the Ubuntu and VNC client on my laptop and remote into the Linux and run it that way?
I know I can find the answers on the net - but - it's nice to illicit help from someone so they can sort of guide me through any snags I encounter.