If you're double-booting Windows and you don't really like having to boot through GRUB or have Windows be second fiddle (the instructions on the Wiki for changing boot-order works but requires a little bit of terminal editing), I experimented with Wubi on the Feisty beta in Windows XP Media Center edition and it worked well. Wubi is the program that lets you install Feisty inside of Windows with the Windows installer (no cd to burn) and boots from the Windows bootloader with Windows as top dog. I found Ubuntu seemed to work properly and fast enough, and the only problem I had was not understanding why Ubuntu took up so much space when seen in Windows Explorer (it carved out 30gb of my 100gb hard drive). Ubuntu normally only takes about 3gb of space for the program; I couldn't tell if Wubi does a messy job of using space when the program is unzipped or whether it was empty space appropriated by Wubi from what it found. It's kind of a rush to open Windows Explorer and see your Ubuntu folders in the drive list...
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