Quote Originally Posted by Dr Unne View Post
On the topic of bootloaders, you can use the Windows bootloader NTLDR and add a menu option to boot Linux. But you have to use dd to dump a raw image of your Linux boot sector and store it as a file on your Windows partition, because the Windows boot loader is too stupid to read ext3 / reiserfs partitions, let alone know how to boot an OS from one. This method doesn't require modifying your MBR at all and it's very easy to uninstall. Not that "fdisk /mbr" is hard though.
That describes my current setup exactly.

On the topic of distros, the one main thing I strongly dislike about Ubuntu us the lack of the root account by default. I want to run su once, not use sudo all the time.