> Ubuntu will work well on pretty much any single-graphics Ultrabook I have a dell vostro 3360 which I bought thinking that everything would be ubuntu-fine...

> Ubuntu will work well on pretty much any single-graphics Ultrabook I have a dell vostro 3360 which I bought thinking that everything would be ubuntu-fine... Not an ultrabook, but similar hardware. It turns out that on on stock ubuntu, even for light tasks, the fan runs overtime. This is not a problem on the manufacturer provided Windows 7. Dell provides Linux drivers to control the fan speed... but they do not work very well even after a fair amount of tweaking (there's a settings file which determines when the fan is supposed to switch on). To me, this is one of the most annoying problems that a machine can have. Manufacturer support of operating systems matters.