For those of you not on linux. Why?
Gentoo is a simple linux distribution for those just beginning
You can create an install cd or bootable thumb drive from their site here
https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/
When installing linux, usually you wipe the whole HD and partition and rebuild from the ground up.
I use archlinux, but yeah that is me. You may also take a look into arch linux as well. there are many tutorials and help on the irc for learning linux
This is a video on how to use Virtual Box to create a instance of Linux on your windows machine, it will not overwrite your windows instead allows one to run linux inside of windows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwvHeFixpZY
Any question ask a linux person who has built 5 machines. including this current encrypted torrified version… and i am still a noob at it.
btw Machine fags help me out.