My new Dell XPS laptop was frussturating me because of the Windows XP Media installed on it. It just came with too much crap that I could not put up with any longer after three months. At the same time, I needed some of my Windows functionality to work from home.
I just installed Ubuntu on my dearest laptop. So far, so good. It detected my internal wireless card and even connected to my 802.1x network. Now thw big challenge of the night is going to be getting VMware to run correctly and load a XP image on that thing. Will keep you posted.
Additional notes:
The OS seems to work fine most fo the time. Here are some additional things that I noticed:
1) Video (and by that I mean wmf and other windows media files) doesn't really work that well in Ubuntu. Some media plays but it is very iffy. If you load XP in a VMWare isntance it works but the video moves extremely slowly and there is no sound.
2) Some times my computer hangs up on startup. I am not sure what the problem can be attributed to. I think it may be due to my Dell XPS M160 laptop.
Other than that everything else works fine.