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I have (very) recently purchased a new Lenovo Ideapad U510 with a 24 gb SSD, and was quite disappointed with Windows 8. So I am considering replacing it with Ubuntu 12.10. I have some experience in the past with Ubuntu and Mint, and it has always been simple to install or make partitions - but I've been hearing things about the secure boot feature preventing this. At least without taking extra steps. What exactly do I need to do? I've also been hearing about Samsung laptops being bricked because of installing other OSes. Is that the case with Lenovos too? I just want to make sure, as I don't want to risk ruining my laptop's hardware. Thanks.

Anthony
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Honestly any pc could be "bricked" when reinstalling an OS. I'm sure I've bricked and fixed my laptops about 4+ times at least in the past 3 years installing and uninstalling OS's. If you want to be extra safe make a clone of your harddrive in case of any issues. Create a boot USB and boot to USB and 'try Ubuntu' first. If everything functions properly install ubuntu as a dual-boot alongside Win8. Ubuntu will automatically create the partitions you need and resize Win8 safely.

I'm going to say one thing though. 24gb is extremely small to be running Windows... let alone a dual-boot system. Consider upgrading your harddrive.

Hope this helps.

Joshua C. Muzyka
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Bricking a computer by installing an OS on it is extremely rare, and the issues with the Samsung laptops are the first time that I have ever heard about it. Unless you purchase a recent Samsung laptop, you are highly unlikely to ever encounter this issue. Regarding Secure Boot, the Linux Foundation fixed this recently by creating a bootloader signed with Microsoft's key, so you have little to worry about.

fouric
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