[Ake M]

Thanks Automan!
A really good article about Operating Systems and the pros and cons. Definitely no exaggerations about Linux.
I am running Fedora and before that Mandriva. Mandriva was very good and easy to install.
Fedora is excellent but somewhat puristic and excludes software that may be commercially tainted and is therefore somewhat difficult to install. But there is an OS called Korora, that is based on Fedora, but includes the commercially tainted software like Firefox etc. ( https://kororaproject.org/ ) . I haven’t tried Korora, but from my experiences from Fedora, I believe it would be a good choice. You can chose between two desktops, Gnome and KDE, it is only a matter of taste.

DO A BACKUP OR TWO
But before you do anything at all, copy the content of your computer to an external hard disk or USB-stick, preferably two, stored at different locations. Even if you don’t intend to do anything, make the backups. You don’t know when your computer gives up and then it’s to late.

Hi Charles Alban

As for your problems with UEFI. I would like to refer to Adam Williamson’s blog:

UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then?

At the end you have a heading:
Installing operating systems to UEFI-based computers
which may be of some help.

My advise if you are interested in Linux:
Get an old computer, download some different Linuxes and burn the DVDs. ( Please note, burn images not copies. Your burning program will probably help you. ) Test them and see which ones you like. When installing, do some mistakes and see what happens. That way you will learn a lot and get some confidence.

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