Ubuntu on new Dell C521

Brand new PC - shipped early December with Win XP Pro installed.

Oodles of hard drive space. Nice fast processor.

So, easy to install Ubuntu?

Well, not quite.....

First issue - yeuch - horrible screen scrolling when putting in live CD! Then came the partitioning part. I obviously didn't want to over-write the Win partition, but does the sliding scale indicate the size of the Linux partition or the Win one?! Doesn't say at all in the graphical installer. But from a check on Google it seems it's the Nux partition. Which could have been a costly mistake.

And if I tried to partition myself, the options that came up were completely non-understandable!

The install kept freezing too. Another quick search revealed that one should defrag the PC before trying install. So, did that, and....

Install thereafter went OK! But why did the USB mouse keep freezing? Simple unplugging and plugging in again rectified this, but hardly a long term solution. Googling revealed this site, and one firmware download later, USB mouse behaving AND horrible scrolling effect gone!

Then tried the Beryl install. Worked very well in comparison to my machine. And very nice it looks too!

Aim now is to install the latest release 7.04 when it's out of Beta!!!