I don't know about your particular model but usually it "just works". I run
standard Kubuntu on my MSI Wind at the moment and it's all good.

When you say "nothing works" could you be a little more specific? Does it
start up at all? Does it freeze, crash or reboot? Is the screen readable? Do
you have any sound? Is the network card working? There are workarounds for
most of these...

Other things to check are: did you get a good download and burn of the disk?
You can try using it as a live CD (I think all Ubuntu disks work that
way). Is your Hard Drive of Solid State Drive, large enough to do the
installation?