There are a few last things I wanted to get to work with my laptop, mainly the webcam and microphone. I would go into detail on how I got them to work with Ubuntu but I found this great page : To install Ubuntu-7.04 on Dell Inspiron 1520 Which is something therapeutic about hammering out CRUD code and some of these warnings are straight ridiculous, making you wonder why anyone would take the hit on simplicity for flexibility. Good luck everyone.