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Speaking from within ubuntu and coming from a windows background, I like them both. This netbook came with vista ultimate pre-installed. Painfully slow. Windows 7 fairly zips along but it still has it’s moments. From my experience, linux does netbooks better, faster. I find help from the resident expert in apcmag.com magazine. I have tried linux since the 1990’s and it is really only the since the various live distros started coming out that they made any sense to a gui-oriented person like me. Also I find the terminal in linux to be a lot more intuitive and forgiving than the command prompt in windows. Ubuntu has a wonderful app that let’s one put an ISO onto USB, graphically. This is what is required to do the same in Windows:
INSTALL WIN7/VISTA ON USB – apcmag march 2009 pp 80:
open command prompt as administrator
TO PREPARE USB DRIVE:
‘diskpart’
‘list disk’
select disk #’ (carefully!)
‘clean’
‘create partition primary’
‘select partition 1’
‘active’
‘format fs=fat32’
‘assign’
‘exit’ (added 3/28/10 see below)
TO INSTALL OPERATING SYSTEM
‘xcopy u:*.* /s/e/f g:’
where optical drive is u: and usb drive is g:
[3/28/10:’exit'(had this in the wrong place, sorry.uH)Note also works for PE builders] You can edit configuration files as recommended by Woody in newsletter August 20, 2009,on the USB key
I still need my windows, for the sheer volume of workable drivers and applications, and for my disk imaging. The windows registry is a wonderful place to be. A boot manager such a system commander (not free)
avoids the dual-boot traumas, and has pre-boot partitioning. Windows 7 scorned my old Pentium3 with 384mb ram, ubuntu lets me access the old hard drives.