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# Installing

Installing most Linux Distributions nowadays is quite easy, and is usually a guided process

Though, before installing, make sure to enter "Test Mode" or "Live Mode", and see if your hardware works (Other than Nvidia GPUs)
<span style="font-size:12px;color:grey">If you didn't get a menu to select this, and you're just seeing a mostly blank Desktop, then you're already in "Test Mode"</span>

Once you've verified your hardware works, look around, use it a little bit, and see if you like it :)

If you like the OS, you can proceed to installation. The installation program is usually linked on the desktop somewhere, on in the Applications Menu.

### The rest of the installation process is guided by the OS.

*[Linux Distribution]: An Operating System made using Linux
*[Linux Distributions]: Operating Systems made using Linux
*[Linux Distros]: Operating Systems made using Linux
*[Linux Distro]: An Operating System made using Linux
*[Wayland]: A modern Display Server Protocol, which is aimed at replacing X.org
*[ootb]: Out Of The Box (By Default)
*[PipeWire]: Software for Multimedia processing on Linux
*[PipeWire-Pulse]: An addition to Pipewire, which adds Audio functionality compatible with PulseAudio
*[PulseAudio]: An older Audio implementation used on Linux, which has been mostly replaced by PipeWire
*[Offline Upgrades]: Upgrades/Updates, which reboot the PC to apply