Havent used "proper dual boot " in a few years , When i use to have it the easiest way i found was to have a very small partition approx 300Mb that contained the master boot record. I found this a lot easier to recover when something went wrong.(just read forum where someone was having trouble with dual boot)
Lately ive fallen in love with Wubi installers option to install linux within windows itself (you still have access to all of windows filesystem through "Host" folder and essentially it runs exactly the same as a dual boot (no reduced performance and i have stress tested it thoroughly) on top of that it is the most painless thing i have ever encountered to remove /repair/reinstall.
I despise Unity after testing 11.04 ubuntu, 3 questions
1/ do the compiz restricted extras work reasonably painlessly in the latest Ultimate Edition ?. I couldnt even get cube to work on 11.04 Ubuntu without turning off the automatic plugin sorting(which then cripples the GUI for CCSM)
2/ Does either Ultimate Edition or Ultimate Edition OZ come with wubi as default ?
(now the hard question)
3/ Ultimate Edition or the OZ edition for a 1st time user to these distro's ?
P.S. loved the guide i found here for 3d animated models within CCSM cube