X120e installing Ubuntu?

 Hi everyone,
I just got my x120e a week ago and loving it. I had a Asus netbook and has Ubuntu Netbook edition installed in it. It runs so much faster than windows. 
I have a question that should I install Ubuntu to my x120e? I don't want to mess up my new system so I wanna know if anybody has done that. If so can you please help me decide?
Thank you very much!
An

If you like linux, go for it!
There's a whole thread dedicated to the x120e over at the Ubuntuforums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10616057&postcount=139
I tried it myself, but 11.04 beta 2 won't install the boot loader correctly on my setup (because it's EFI).

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