One thing I dislike about the Linux word is how in many cases, application tutorials or readmes for Linux native apps (even their Windows/Mac versions) are written in cryptic ways that makes you even more confused at it. It's like if the people who wrote those help files are singling out people with less experience with computers. People encourage others to switch to Linux but don't help them at all and force them to rely on help forums to search for their questions (or ask). I don't know how Linux distros themselves are, but I know apps like Irssi had very cryptic help files when I last checked.

Btw, do you guys think a 80 GB harddrive would be enough to fit Mint and Windows XP? Do I need a special harddrive to be able to partition it and is partitioning hard and dangerous for the average Windows user who don't venture into low-level stuff?

Btw I always found Mac Os to be more user friendly than Windows. Even apps made for it seemed to have more user-friendly controls, like Photoshop. I loved Photoshop for Mac, but I despise the Windows version, especially how Zooming in an image won't increase the window size like in Photofiltre Studio. But Mac is so friggin expensive for what it offers and its variety of softwares is still not any better than Linux. Just that would make me never go back to Mac Os again. Also Mac Os 9.2 is terrible in terms of stability.

is defragmenting needed if you format your harddrive first? Also in which order both OSes should be installed?

Btw I'm not going into linux now, but I am asking in case, because eventually I had plans to load Linux on my old PC, but would still like to be able to use Windows XP on it too, since some old apps will not work on Seven (and my version of Seven doesn't support Virtual PC)

well as I mentionned in my posts sometimes even RTFMing won't help, because a lot are written in cryptic ways that only tech-savy users can understand. In some cases, when I ask for help afterward, people are even more cryptic, making me even more confused . Oh well, hopefully maybe it should be different this time, and since I got two PC, I can always hop on IRC at night if I need help.

Also i checked and my harddrive is NTFS so I should be good. I feared it was an older format or something.

Windows for Workgroups 3.11. (Yeah, I have that. ) On top of a stripped down MS-DOS 6 installation who were already there when I bought the computer.

Also, Linux should recognize both NTFS and ext4 while Windows should see only its own partition. And yeah, it's better to ask on IRC, it's way better than these cryptics manuals you would need a Ph. D. to read that.

What does Ph. D stands for?

ah ok, never heard of that before

Strange, over here we don,t use that in french. If we talk about someone's level in terms of studies, we just say the person got a diploma in medecine at university, or if we want to be more in details, we say he got a "doctorat" diploma in medecine. In Uni, the lowest level is baccalauréat, second level maîtrise and third level doctorat. We rarely ever refer to a doctorat diploma owner as "doctor" because everyone misinterprets it as the person who work in a hospital (technically, in french, doctor is medecin, but in our local slang we always say doctor)

Is fedora user-friendly for someone with little experience with computers? I would probably want to start with something that is.