I can tell you it was easy sailing installing Kubuntu , it really has a much faster response time than win 7 , plus the GUI actually looks better , I dont care much for toys like webcam or skype or you (useless) tube but I will test all of these anyways , One thing that should be done is to upgrade your bios , I just bought this AO the other day and it had rev 1.05 on it , I found this version 1.07 which is also an unlocker (forgot where I got it from) ,but it unlocks the advanced and power menus in the bios , a big + , when I tried installing deb it always gave me a "firmware"missing "need third party firmaware to run" notification , I didnt get this with Kubuntu 11 , this looks really nice , windows 7 is great if you have the resources ,but this lil bugger doesnt so why waste it?/