Im not sure I understood what you are saying.

You moved from ME to Ubuntu.
You have a 1.2GHZ AMD, 40GB HD and 512mb ram.

The last sentence:
you like Ubuntu?
its worse than you thought?

something else?

Also, not going to defend Windows here, but ME is about the worst
version you could ever pick to use...

I think he meant works great and not worse great...

you don't think that Vista is worse?

Worse than what. Vista needs learning just like Unbuntu does. Some
manage it other don't.

Personally, I've never used ME, I had 95, 98, XP & Vista. My brother on the
other hand went straight from 95 to ME & loved it. Now he's made the ultimate
upgrade (no offense to anyone here) from Windows to Mac. Windows is a pain.
Linux is pretty good. I have SuSe 11.0 dual booting on my Vista laptop, but I
can't for the life of me get Ubuntu, SuSe, or any other flavor of Linux except
possible for a "live" version of kde to dual boot with my XP desktop. Nothing
will load. I have the Ubuntu cd stright from Ubuntu, I'm told that Ubuntu will
create it's own partition. Just doesn't happen. The installation freezes up.
Now this is on my HP desktop. I tried to do the same on my mom's Gateway
desktop & Ubuntu erased her entire drive!! It worked fine, but we couldn't
restore windows & because I couldn't get it to work on my desktop I never
thought of backing her drive up.

Think you need to tell us just how you go about the dual boot task. It really is the easiest thing to do.

The live CD should load into memory ( if you have enough RAM) and load
the full desktop. It will then have an icon for you to install. From
their you chose just what partition are set up, be it the whole drive or
the spare space or a manual set up.

Multi-booting with Vista is easy. The machine I'm using to write this is a
triple boot,

Vista Ultimate

Ubuntu 8-10

Windows 7 Beta

The only difficulty is, I have to re-boot to change from one to the other

That is the trouble with double or triple booting. I have tree
computers. A fast one, self built with XP, an old one slower with Ubuntu
and a laptop with dual booted Vista and Ubuntu. I need them because I
teach computer use.

They are all connected to a KVM switch that allows me to swap with a
single button. KVMs are cheap. They connect to a router for internet use
and link to a printer.

Impressive, but I boot OSX 10.5.6

And run in VMware

Windows XP x32

Windows XP x64

Windows Vista Ultimate X64

Ubuntu x64

Solaris x64

RedHat Enterprise 5 x64

All this on a Quad 9550 running at 4.03 Ghz with 8 GB Ram J

I have not decided on if I will play with Windows 7.... I did my part
with Longhorn and look what it got me.

When I was running a quad boot I just let Ubuntu do the work.... But now
I am using VMware which is much better for me.