Ah fuck, nobody said I had to make an introduction post. Ain't that some bullshit.

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Knoppix is Klaus Knopper's live disc. It's a great way to experiment in relative safety, and provides quite a complete system, but it is still a live disc. That means whenever you shutdown or reboot the system you lose all changes. If you create or download anything you want to keep, save it to a separate disk before shutting down or restarting.

Ubuntu or Linux Mint are good distros to start with if you want to permanently install Linux on your PC.

You may keep your Windows system in a dual boot configuration with Linux. To do so you'll create a separate partition on your computer's internal boot disk. (It is also possible to boot Linux from an external USB disk, but that's not the typical installer default.)