Started installing Ubuntu on my new laptop. That thing has a crazy partition setup. The old laptop was reasonable - two partitions (one for the OS, one for user files) and one more for restoration. It's rather simple to take the user files partition, split off a partition from it for the swap space, and start installing Ubuntu on it. Not the new laptop, however. It comes maxed out at four partitions - one for the OS, one for user files, one for the restoration partition, and the last one for I have no clue what. I had to remove the user files partition, set it up as an extended partition, then split that extended partition between the Ubuntu OS partition and the swap space. For some reason, hard drives are limited to four primary partitions. I read somewhere that this has something to do with the way the MBR works. Setting up Ubuntu without blasting the other partitions would require five primary partitions, which wouldn't exactly work with current limitations. Thankfully we have extended partitions that let us work around that.
Anyway, that's going well. Hopefully all the dinking around with the partitions doesn't blast any of the Windows/restoration stuff. Files are copying right now.
While I'm at it, here's what my desktop looks like right now:
Yes, there are four computers in that picture. Yes, it is ridiculous.
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