I was thinking about trying Virtualbox, bt on this computer, (8 year old Gateway...) the amount of RAM it takes and the time it takes to download Ubuntu (8 hours! ), and my knowledge of partions (0% lulz...) it would just kill my computer. But, I could say that I plugged it in to a different computer and it didn't work so... looks like Ubuntu's out for a while. But I could try virtualbox.