I have a HP Mini 110 series (about 4 years old) that I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 on. Took a little tinkering to get the wifi working but now it has no problems

I have a HP Mini 110 series (about 4 years old) that I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 on. Took a little tinkering to get the wifi working but now it has no problems and is very fast for 1GB of RAM and a Intel Atom CPU. I also have a bigger Asus G73JH series(i7, 8GB RAM) which I dual boot Windows 7 and the latest Ubuntu LTS release (12.10?) on. It took no tinkering with this at all and worked fine with a fresh install. I've also installed older versions of Ubuntu on Dells pretty effortlessly. Most modern architectures will likely be supported out of the box for Ubuntu and its really a great starting point for familiarizing yourself with Linux. Also, Ubuntu Forums [0] has a great community with people willing to help. Just make sure you do some research yourself before posting there or the 'veterans' get grouchy in my experience. Good Luck! [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/ http://ubuntuforums.org/ edit: grammar