Wait a year. Ubuntu has a very powerful tendency to slowly develop crud and become unusable, until you just need to start from scratch and re-install the OS.

Wait a year. Ubuntu has a very powerful tendency to slowly develop crud and become unusable, until you just need to start from scratch and re-install the OS. Not sure if this has changed, but laptops tend to be a mess with Ubuntu. Things like closing the lid and going into sleep mode would fail seemingly at random.