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@davidoclubb @anniemo71 If you have a spare USB drive you could try this https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/try-ubuntu-before-you-install . Unfortunately I'm not local to you so can't teach you person, but I'm sure there's a bunch of us on here that can help out with at least the 'try before you install' bit. 
Partitioning isn't too awful, though it depends how comfortable/familiar you are with slightly more low-level computer fiddling!
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