[Mystake]

so its time for me to leave winblows and switch to linux.

i love(d) XP, still had it dual booted when I installed 7. Lucky me, malware got a grip on my computer. I can't be bothered going through the multi-day process of having it fixed online (it'll take specialized tools to do it and specific knowledge that I don't have, see: spywareinfo forums). Switching back to XP isn't a possibility as it got jacked as well and I can't load into it.
Quirks about my desktop, I only have a disc reader. No burner, no dvd reader. Just a plain old 52x speed cd reader.

XP is good, but inconvenient for a multitude of reasons, making it a last resort/option but nevertheless it'll be there as a boot option.

I'd go to mac but is it smart to run mac OS on a computer built for windows? My desktop is intel based not AMD.

Luckily I only paid 8$ for my Windows 7 license (thank you UOIT for volume licensing, i got microsoft office 2008 for 11$)

I know very little about Linux and how it works, what I do know though is that it's a better set up to run my desktop as the media server I've always wanted it to be.

One thing, Linux is FAT32 isn't it? Or at least, not NTFS?


either way, i need a geek.