I used ubuntu 8.10 and had difficulty with drivers. Yes, that was a year ago and no, I'm not trying again.
However, looking at the success I'm having with Windows XP in Windows Virtual PC, I might VirtualBox a linux installation paralell to my 7 install.
You can actually install ubuntu 9.10 in windows, no partitioning or anythink required, after conceeding in this thread i might give it ago. If i do get any problems its easy enough to unistall in windows.
Honestly, whatever works.
No one person can say an OS is better or not as good considering not every OS operates the same way and no two people like the same exact things.
IE: macfags
QFT. I hate fanboys that claim x is better than anything else, without even attempting to use the competition. Anyone's OS prefrence simply comes down to personal choice.
I dual boot with Windows XP and Ubuntu as choices.
Windows XP, because of compatibility and gaming.
Ubuntu...because I wanted to try it. It's actually a very nice idea, everything being open-sourced and able to read and write almost every file format, it comes with all the essentials right out of the box. And a virus-free OS is very alluring too.
Ultimately I prefer XP, Ubuntu still has quirks to be worked on. I'll eventually upgrade to W7
Windows. Does what I want and it is the operating system that I grew up with and grown accustom to.
Mac and Linux don't intrigue me just yet, until windows stops doing what I want, I'm a Windows guy.