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How big is a minimal Ubuntu install
| This is to just get familiar with navigating through the GUI and see how my hardware reacts to the new OS. I don't plan on replacing Windows 10 as my main OS because I still need it so I'm looking to make this more of a temporary install more than anything
| Also, seeing how other threads have gone, I truly do appologize if I trigger any of you with my lack of knowledge on Linux. As can be seen from the post above I am quite unknowledgeable on code and advanced PC tech skills
| Also, instructions on how to get the install to be set on the D drive instead of my C drive (where all my Win10 files are) would be appreciated. I tried running the install on a VM box, but that would only detect the virtual hard drive
| Actually there exists an official ubuntu-shell for win10 as a result of collaboration between microcock and canonical.
>minimal Ubuntu install
>This is to just get familiar with navigating through the GUI
A minimal install has no GUI.
>how to get the install to be set on the D drive
Is "D" really a drive or a partition?
What you want to do is actually called "dualboot". It's an automatically suggested option by most ubuntoid distro GUI installers.
| For the best Desktop system experience I'd suggest you kde-neon user edition. If you have low hardware consider using "lubuntu next".
Just download a fitting image from the internet to an empty USB-flash drive and boot your laptop from it. Feel free to ask if you suck somewhere or don't know what or how you should do it.
| >Just download a fitting image from the internet to an empty USB-flash drive and boot your laptop from it.
This already is the first tricky thing. You can't just copy the image to the pendrive. Watch out for a live-USB-disk-creator or something.
| Don't even install Ubuntu its owned basicly by Microsoft now, who knows what they are doing to that distro now specially after that telemetry and power shell fiasco
| >>378599
Nah, Ubuntu is not "owned by microsoft". I'm pretty sceptical about their collaboration thought, but as long Ubuntus code stays "free as in freedom". Sure there are proprietary drivers and third party applications like skype, but this is not new. Regarding the telemetry: the unity desktop died with 18.04. Now it's just a modified GNOME desktop again that can be replaced by a proper or other one.
Btw. what's with OP? Wanted he just troll (afraid of triggering linux ppl)?
| >>378936 I think OP was serious, had minimal knowledge of IT and was kinda afraid to trigger Linux fags which tech is full of
| >>378989
I think it's more the other way arround: it's the anti-linux faction that is triggered even thought they are often wrong. Every statement and explanation why unixoids and/or free software are technically and/or ethically better than windows is raged down with "uh stfu linux autistic/fag" without any understanding of anything.
Back to topic:
>>ab4400, I'd love to help you, but you need to provide me information as described in >>377324. Btw it should be "stuck", not suck.
| >>377296
>The laptop's drive came with 24.9GB partitioned to a D disk that I plan to use for a minimal install.
That should be plenty fine for any distro you wanna try out
| >>377309
>Also, seeing how other threads have gone, I truly do appologize if I trigger any of you with my lack of knowledge on Linux
No need to apologize for anything. I say fuck the fanatics. Is this really the culture of fear and bullying and gatekeeping the free software community wants to foster?
| >>377312
>Also, instructions on how to get the install to be set on the D drive instead of my C drive (where all my Win10 files are) would be appreciated. I tried running the install on a VM
You'll probably want to delete that D partition in Windows so that it becomes unallocated space on the drive. I believe you can do it under Disk Management in Control Panel.
| >>379369
You'll probably want to do this, unless you wanna do it in the Ubuntu installer which you might find confusing. If you do delete that partion in Windows, when you finally boot the Ubuntu installer (from a USB drive for example), it will automatically detect the unallocated space and give you the option to use that for your Ubuntu installation under a guided install. This approach requires the least fiddling in the ubuntu install.
| >>377323
>A minimal install has no GUI
What he said. If as you say you have about 24 GB, you can pretty much install any GUI you want.
| And to answer the question, probably less than a gigabyte. More than a gig if you have a major desktop environment (GUI) like GNOME or KDE. There's likely gonna be a swapfile or swap partition though, which would at most equal to how much RAM yoy have. E.g. if you had 4GB RAM it could be 4G as well, though you can change its size during the ubuntu insyall or do away with it altogether (probably not recommended though)
| >>379377
Note: the swapfile is actually important for 2 cases:
1. Outsource data from RAM, especially if it's small and get filled easily
2. Suspend to disk: copies the RAM to the swap partition and turns of the computer. Turning it on will bring back the status the computer had before suspending.
It's suggested to have 1,5xRAM size for swap. If you have 8GB or more RAM and don't use/need suspend to disk feature, you can go without swap.
Tell us some of your syspecs >>ab4400
| My minimal install with i3 takes 2.6G
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| Hello fellow g/u/rls, I've been having my laptop fan ramp up on Windows a lot while idle recently and opening up task manager I can't seem to find what's causing this. Thus, I wanted to try out Ubuntu for the first time but since I'm on a laptop that has a small capacity SSD, I'd like to know how much space is needed for an install. The laptop's drive came with 24.9GB partitioned to a D disk that I plan to use for a minimal install. Details on size and advice will be appreciated