I don't have any particular reason why I installed ubuntu 10.04 in my HP laptop (dv4t 1300), but I did it! Moreover, I don't have any window OS in this laptop now.

But it is becoming pain in my ass to use some hardwares of this laptop. I can't use my webcam even I installed Cheese webcam booth. The Cheese webcam booth shows the webcam but when I try to videochat using yahoo messenger, the webcam doesn't function. I don't know whether this Cheese webcam booth is to show the presence of webcam or it actually drives the webcam for other software applications. I also need to use meebo.com to use yahoo and window messenger. Individual programs of these messengers also don't work properly inspite of installing Wine.

Also I couldn't use my HP-F4440 printer as I couldn't find any linux driver for this printer. The funny thing is the machine works perfectly with laptop as a scanner. I tried to install hplips to make my printer work but as there are many packages with different version and different file extensions available, I lost completely following them.

I know there are many linux experts in Sajha. So if you drop some of your valuable suggestions in the issues I mentioned above it will be great help for me and other newbies to get along with Ubuntu.

Thanks for your time and support 

Since you're one of the Pioneer user of sajha and you've helped a lot of people in Sajha with your good suggestions and sometimes funny comments, i soo wanted to help you GT bro but sorry to say i am not a tech expert. I am from totally different field. But i am sure someone will help you soon as you've said there are lots of tech experts in sajha. Guys please help our very own GT bro. Good luck bro. 

GT,

Try Jolicloud

Many times I was leaning towards UBUTUN operating system which was advised by many IT friends but one who is not computer savoy  will be facing a big havoc. 
After reading GT's blog, I am dropping the idea of getting a Linux OS.

Syanjali- yeah, for a non-tech guy, its a bit hassle to do many stuff. As with commercial products, not all the things are spoon-fed to you. But, latest versions are pretty good out of the box. It takes less memory and is super quick to boot and shutdown.

I havent used ubuntu after hardy was out. Before that, I just used to get familiar with its editor and few simple stuffs (wep cracking was the best part ;).however, I have some blind guess for the above mention situation. Check your CUPS, it is probably off.
If your hardware is new in market, their drivers will not be easily available in Linux platform. In that case, you may need to wait a while for that. So it is always good to have duo boot OS. But that will definitely reduce the use of linux ;).
About webcam, if you can see the presence of webcam ( led on), I believe the driver is installed. Or you can run openCV and get some code from internet just to see if your camera is working properly.

As  other Sajha user said, avoid installing yahoo messenger it doesn't work properly. Try empathy or pidgin they are pretty good. Skype works like charm in my ubuntu box. Linux is better if you try to understand while using it than windows. Linux can offer you lot more than windows, however you have to understand the system, http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install_wizard/index.html work perfectly fine eventhough mine is HP laser and just printer and scanner. You can post your problem in Ubuntu Forum there are plenty of ubuntu expert they can give you prompt help.

Hey BD, thanks for your concern man! I was really freaked  ... anyway I am still playing with Ubuntu.

Mav, Tuttle, default061 and sajhabusaima, thanks for your valuable tips! I am not a tech-guy but like to pretend by following others. This time it was little less than that monkey which cuts it nose trying to shave its beard..lol.

Syanjali bro it worths to give a shot! just don't delete windows while installing ubuntu as I did..

GT bro,