[s8qnze982y]

For me it's been a disaster instead, having an N550 (if memory serves me well).

Ubuntu used to take a very long time to boot (minutes); I couldn't even reliably watch videos.

I was very surprised (and disappointed) though, to see than in Windows everything was perfectly usable.

[rbanffy]

That's really weird. AFAIK, hardware support for Linux is excellent on Atom chipsets. What brand was it? Mine uses the N270 and tops at 1.5 GB of RAM and won't deal with dual screens side by side (two of the reasons to switch to the i3)