[Bassey]

For Dual Boot - and particularly if it is for you, I would just go with plain Ubuntu 8.04. It comes with a windows installer (winbu or something similar) which allows you to install it from a Windows application and use windows uninstaller to remove it afterwards if required. It looks after all the dual-booting for you.

gOS is really designed for OEM installs and so likes to be the sole OS. It does provide options for Dual Booting and maintaining the Windows Partition but I've no idea how it works. But the speed is just phenomenal. The only slow part is OpenOffice which has always had problems starting (from double-clicking the icon it takes about 5-10s before anything happens - by which time you've often given up and tried again). However, that is supposed to be fixed in v3 - out soon and available as a beta now.

But, having worked in IT for years and probably installed my first OS 20 years ago, it's the first time I've ever just stuck in a CD, sat back and ten minutes later had a fully functioning machine with NO DRIVER issues.