I would clean the drive and install Windows and the Ubuntu of your
choice. Always Windows first.

You misunderstood me, I am sorry. I was not clear enough. I am not going to
use Windows until I have children. Dual boot with Mandriva and Ubuntu is good
enough for me, even too good.
Then I will buy another computer and install Windows XP on it.
It is useless to have XP and Linux on the same hard disk, because Windows
collapses first and then you have to reinstall Windows and then reinstall
Ubuntu, otherwise only Windows boots. The GRUB is wonderful, it respects the
small children (Windows).
Again, please, do not misunderstand me, Windows is great for certain purposes,
but it is by no means suitable for me.

let your kids use Ubuntu and tell them why. Except for games (which I know
are 100% of a childs life :) ) there is no reason not to.

Windows collapses first. What ever does that mean. Duel booting means
booting into either Windows or Ubuntu. So stick to Linux versions as you
want to do that but their are more way forwartd when you do use windows.

I am going to guess that he means, that Windows usually requires
re-installation first. I find that as much testing and playing as I
do with my system, that Windows gets garbaged up to the point where
about once a year or so re-installation is the only thing that will
get performance back.

For me, in a dual boot set-up, installing Windows ahead of the other
operating system seems to be a much happier existance.

Annymore, I keep one of my old 40 gig drives around with a fresh
install of Windows. Rather than go through the re-intall hassle, I
image it over onto my work drive, and then expand the partition. Let
it up date and we are back in business.

I've had more than one person tell me that, such antics are never
necessary, that it is the user who has goofed things up. But I've not
had one of them able to drop by and be able to get the performance a
fresh install will get you. After owning and using Micrsoft operating
system based computers since 1984, this is the easiest method I've
found to keep the speed up in my systems.

If i never changed out software, it might be a different story. But I
play with different utilities and software on a regular basis.

I don't think Microsoft is evil, nor do I defend them. They are what
they are, and they remind me of my neighbors dog. If you go in his
yard, he sees it as his territory, and he will bite you. Same goes
for Microsoft.

Now and then he gets confused and and thinks my yard is his yard, and
I have to run him off while trying not to get bit. Same goes for
Microsoft.

I agree. I found that the only way to keep Windows running as close
to perfect as possible is to do a wipe and reinstall every so often.
As far as the anti windows thing goes, I became anti windows from
years of having to fix windows machines but I was actually impressed
with how stable and secure Vista seems on my laptop. However I never
liked the licensing thing so Open Source just feels right to me.

I am confused too, but I think the guy is working in a second language and
probably using a dictionary to help. Sometimes you get strange language with a
literal translation.