After applying several updates (12.04 LTS > 12.10 > 13.04) and messing around with the nvidia drivers, my Ubuntu install became a bit unstable... so I wanted to find a quick way to re-install 13.04 to be able to mess around again but from a clean install ;-)
The main hurdle here is that the main Ubuntu distribution does not provide the alternate installer (which embeds raid support) anymore...
However, I recently found out that the Lubuntu distribution still provides the alternate installer !
ISO image is available here : http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/raring/release/
After my first try to install Lubuntu, Windows 8 was actually removed from the EFI loader (even from the bios). I followed the instructions posted here : http://www.tweakhound.com/2012/11/13/how-to-fix-the-windows-bootloader/ and hopefully the automatic repair worked for me (don't forget you need to make a recovery drive in Windows 8 prior to do this).
Other than that, I'm now running Lubuntu and find it great (quick to install, minimal set of apps, etc.)
I can now see that HDMI is supported out the box (with the nouveau driver) but is really buggy and cannot be used as is. Next step for me is to try to install the latest beta nvidia drivers with Optimus support again... Will keep you posted on that.
