Installing Ubuntu on Vista Laptop (Toshiba)

[EnigmaX]

I recently found a great deal on a Toshiba Satellite laptop, which unfortunately came with Vista.

Currently the HD is not partitioned. Should I attempt to partition the HD and dual boot Ubuntu/Vista, or just go soley with Ubuntu? Some of the Vista graphic drivers are screwed up, so a new install of Vista probably wouldn't hurt anyways, but I'm soooo not looking forward to that.

Any suggestions, tips, things I should know or back up ahead of time? I'm assuming my wireless, sound, graphics, etc should work pretty much "out of the box" so to speak?

[Kooothor]

Kill vista, keep just ubuntu, you won't regret it for sure.

[drjonze]

I'm dual-booting Vista and Ubuntu on an Acer laptop. I really only use Ubuntu but I have Vista because of my iPhone and just in case something comes up that I need Windows for. I guess its really a personal choice and you wouldn't really know what you can and can't do in Ubuntu till you try it. My experience has been that I can do everything in Ubuntu I normaly do in Windows except manage my iPhone.

As for things working 'out of the box' it depends on the hardware. Everything I had worked immediately EXCEPT my graphics card. I have a NVidia card and you have to use their drivers. Getting my display set up (I am using an LCD TV as a monitor) was tricky.

I have Vista on its own Partition, Ubuntu on another and I made a third partition that I store all of my files in for easy sharing between Ubuntu and Vista.

The best advise I can give is to always check the forum for answers, whatever the problem, a dozen other people here had it and had it resolved here.