(I was only born in 1952. I had a serious stroke 13 years ago before I was 48. I have "cognitive impairment"...so...I officially have an acquired head injury.)

You have an iso on a flash drive. You need to change the iso into a bootable Linux distro.

You need something like Unetbootin - http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ It can work in Linux, Windows or OS X.

Put Unetbootin and the iso onto a working Hard Drive. Open Unetbootin. Choose Diskimage and then search for the path to the iso. It should then work when you click OK.

YES. Xubuntu will work as a "stand alone"

I am not a rocket scientist. I have just taken some time to understand computers. Without that people can't get very far.

To download a torrent you need a special application called a torrent client e.g. Azureus?Vuse. The best thing about torrents is that you can stop downloading one day and carry on another day. They are hard to break.

A mirror download is one without a torrent. It is a straight download. If you stop it, it will be broken and useless.

You need to download an "iso". That can either be burnt to a CD or a USB stick. That is a special operation which will create a Linux bootable disk. ...You don't just copy an iso to a CD...

Look somewhere like here: https://sites.google.com/site/xubuntuinstallhowto/get-it

Ubuntu IS Linux...

What are the basic specs of your computer? How much RAM have you got?

"a new Linux operating system that just came out on May 17th" New Distro or new version of already release Distro? Don't be surprised if people can't help with this. Have you checked the History on your Browser?

Please don't post the same question more than once. I have deleted your other post.

https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/405303:collaborate-using-libreoffice-writer-changes-and-comments

I have a Acer Aspıre 5738z laptop that has been converted to wındows 7 professıonal Turkısh edıtıon

At the last count I have 4 Dell C400s. They have a particular video issue, but it can be worked around. The distro that worked out of the box is: Crunchbang - http://crunchbang.org/. The Waldorf (Debian Testing/Wheezy) version. If you don't like Openbox you can: sudo apt-get install xcfe4*

I have always maxed out the memory of my Dells to 1Gb. If you can, increase the memory.

Welcome to linux.com!

How are you trying to connect? Ethernet? Wi-fi? Something else?

Check out:
Keryx Project - http://keryxproject.org/
Sushi,huh? - http://sushi-huh.sourceforge.net/
APTonCD - http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/

Most of the stuff mentioned as supported by Wine are games. You could look at e.g. WineHQ - http://appdb.winehq.org/

There can be "layers" over Wine, but Wine is at the bottom e.g. PlayOnLinux http://www.playonlinux.com/en/ to Commercial offerings like Crossover http://www.codeweavers.com/products/

Redhat is a Commercial Linux. You have to pay for support. There are free versions of Redhat e.g. Centos - http://www.centos.org/

I wonder how Windows 8 is messed up. A virus? Just borked?

Dual booting will give you a chance to try out your various hardware works under Linux.