boot - Dual booting Ubuntu with Windows 10

I have a Lenovo Yoga 2. The specs are the following:

• Intel i7 Processor (2.6 GHz)



• 225GB SSD, 25GB Hard drive


• Windows 10


• 8GB RAM

I want to dual boot a good version of Ubuntu. I had the following questions.

1. Given the specs, will dual booting slow down my computer in any way?


2. Any suggestions on the best Ubuntu image to use?



3. How much resources on my computer will this use up?

First of all I suggest you to test Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Support in a USB live stick.

If everything is fine go ahead and install it. If you have minor problem testing it, you can ask here for help or google the problem to solve it. I have installed it with plenty of software and games and it uses right now 10 GB of HD space.
Making dual boot the only resource it use is the HDD space. When you boot in windows, Ubuntu doesn't use RAM or anything. The little added time the PC takes is when you have to decide on which OS you want to boot.