I tried to upgrade my netbook a few weekends ago. It already had Ubuntu 10.04 installed on it, but I wanted to install the latest, 10.10. It had been a little flakey with the wireless link and I was hoping the new version would sort things out. No such luck. After about an hour or so installing, all it did was keep trying to connect over and over again. I was about to go back to 10.04 this weekend, so that I would have at least a version that half-worked (I also don't like the new Unity user interface that much), but I'd read a review in Linux User & Developer magazine that recommended Jolicloud, so I installed that instead. It's not too bad, although perhaps a little too web oriented for my taste (part of the installation is for you to sign up to their web site or Facebook page, which is a bit off putting), but it did connect to the wireless router.
As a passing thought, if you want to check out an operating system on a PC, it might be worth using it from a boot drive first to see whether it will support all the hardware, etc.
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