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Installing Ubuntu desktop for Dual Booting with Windows

      Introduction Ubuntu is a Linux distribution published by the canonical team. The term ‘Ubuntu’ is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others'. Ubuntu is a freely available desktop operating system that is easy to use. There are other versions of Ubuntu that are targeted for Servers, IoT and Cloud as well. In this article we are going to focus on installing Ubuntu desktop on a personal machine. Why Ubuntu? There can be several reasons for a person to use Ubuntu as their Operating System on the machine they use. The first obvious point is that is free to use. Therefore, some people may like to use this for their computational tasks. Some people can have use cases that will require a Linux system (or a UNIX like OS) such as programming in C or android platform development (which can be harder or impossible to perform on a Windows environment). For those people, a Linux distribution will be a good option (Since other UNIX like Systems can be cost prohibit