Ubuntu.com instructions say to press F12 or F10 or look for a brief message after switching on but none of these are applicable; laptop just goes to Windows. When I try to open Ubuntu from the USB, it wants to know which Windows app to open it with, none of which work. I have also installed something called Rufus under some weird instructions on this same site, but it just opens something called Hex Editor which shows the Ubuntu thingy as a page full of incomprehensible numbers. I've been at this for hours and it's doing my head in - can't even get past go. I'm not a computer geek but I would've thought Ubuntu a tad more user-friendly after reading all the hype.
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User535733 is right.
Boot into your bios settings (usually one of the F keys at power up) and look for the way to set the boot order to go to the USB before it goes to disk or CD.
And yes Rufus does make a USB bootable. I have done it with both sticks and drives.
As for the ubuntu hype, no worries, it is a highly diversified system and you will find your place in it.
