>> Well, if you decide exactly what hardware goes in, you can select only
>> supported hardware. Easy. :-D
> 
> As a consumer, I don't, though.  The vendor builds the machine with 
> functioning hardware.

...which is what I meant. If HP gets to pick what hardware goes in, they 
can pick exactly the hardware that works with whichever OS they're 
preloading.

> Now of all of these machines, which one has the most problems, do you 
> think?
> 
> Yep, it's the WINDOWS machine.

:-|   <== not shocked face.

> My wife has run Linux on her laptop since the day we got it, and hasn't 
> had any serious problems with it.  "Ah, but she has you to fix anything 
> she has trouble with", I hear you say.  Yes, but I can't remember the 
> last time I did anything on her machine other than shut it off at night.  
> She's pretty non-technical, but she's managed to figure out how to use 
> it, and she's shown some of our neighbors who were curious about Linux.

Like I said, Linux has now become pretty easy to use once it's set up 
right. I find it's still tricky to set it up correctly sometimes, but 
once it works it's really not much different to Windoze. [Except no 
random OS crashes.]

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