"Linux will usually install 'over' Win with far less hassle than trying it the other way round"

Of course, when trying to install Ubunto 10.04 on my new AMD V20 Toshiba, it fell over - that's because Toshiba had 'done secret V20 things' and the Linux guys had to reverse engineer things around the undocumented proprietary changes Toshiba had made - I still haven't had the opportunity to try again yet. I thought about 11.11, but it is not a LTS release, so I will have to upgrade to a later version anyway, so looking at waiting for 11.04 as Win 7 is klunking along sufficiently.