Hello I am a very long time user of Windows and before. I now want to try Linux. I have old laptops and older computers with outdated windows and would love to breath new life into them even if only for an experiment. Is there a hands on course on Linux for beginners from downloading OS to installing and using? If not is there some kind person in showing me the way? I would love to get away from Windows. I do have some window programs that I sure wish I could use in Linux, like some Cadd programs and video editing programs, can I use them or are there Linux programs that do the same? Some many questions and lots of time to play. Cheers John Baker abstracttechnologies [ at ] bellnet [ dot ] ca -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 01DmgEkFg) is spam: Spam: https://antispam.roaringpenguin.com/canit/b.php?i=01DmgEkFg&m=a4de8c872473&t=20101023&c=s Not spam: https://antispam.roaringpenguin.com/canit/b.php?i=01DmgEkFg&m=a4de8c872473&t=20101023&c=n Forget vote: https://antispam.roaringpenguin.com/canit/b.php?i=01DmgEkFg&m=a4de8c872473&t=20101023&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS