Quote from: BenCousins on September 12, 2012, 05:58 amforgive my noob, but GUI's and KDE's? anyways i would prefer to not even have windows on a brand new laptop and just DBAN the Thing and have it boot a Linux OS from a USB, i tried that tutorial from ages ago by JohnKeats i think its stickied but it didnt quite work. point me in the right direction?GUI stands for Graphical User Interface. e.g. everything you're looking at on your monitor right now.KDE is what is known as a skin. A skin is the GUI clothing of your Operating System, there are many types of skins, with KDE and Gnome being the defaults in many Linux distribution.Try SecureErase, there are many types of programs for wiping a HD, I'll make a tutorial on doing it properly eventually but don't hold your breath.