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Installing Ubuntu 16.04 on an Alienware Aurora R5

Installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on an Alienware Aurora R5 with NVIDIA GPU support (Dual boot Windows) I have compiled these instructions from my succesful installation on Nov 25. Would you be happy to live without Windows? If not use Dual Boot. This procedure is inspired from this DELL support page : http://www.dell.com/support/article/uk/en/ukbsdt1/SLN301754/en You can refer to the link above for additional steps and to see useful screenshots. However, please, make sure to take care about the GPU-related  steps below. Re-installing Windows 10 with BIOS Secure Boot to OFF First, check that have only one disk installed in your machine. I have found that having one disk only makes it easier to re-install Windows. Secondly, an important step is to create two USB Recovery disks. Use two USB memory sticks bigger than 16 GB supporting the USB 3.0 standard (file copy will be much faster). Use the first one to create a recovery disk for Windows 10, as a backup if the installati