Then in that case Mandriva is probably your best option because they license the fonts from the users.

What kind of problems were experiences when you tried to set it up for dual-boot, such as error message or system actions that made it "fail miserably"?

Yukti Communication wrote:

with ubunty, dual boot did happen, but it crashed

Mint, did not install on dual boot at all..... no error message, no message at all rather, it just did not install....... I even left it on overnight twice, wont move

With mint, did you verify the ISO image before it was burned or try to burn a new copy for installation disk?

Without corruption to blame it is hard to understand the issue since mint it ubuntu re-branded with some additional packages. Does anyone else have any ideas as to why Mint would not work on his computer?