Quote Originally Posted by User137 View Post
Ubuntu
Well, here's your problem. I personally prefer Fedora, but I think that Mint is the best distro when it comes to hardware support.

And, as Rodrigo said, Dual Boot all the way. You can run many programs on Wine, but quite often this brings some performance issues, so it may be necessary to boot into Winderps once in a while. Just get a FAT/NTFS partition that you can share between the OSes and voila.