>> ...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.
> 
> Sure.  Now, how surprised are you going to be when I tell you that my HP 
> didn't come with openSUSE installed, but with Vista installed, and I 
> installed openSUSE with no problems?

That's a little different, yeah.

> (Only thing not working is 
> wireless, and I don't care about that - but I understand there are 
> drivers for Linux for it, just can't be bothered).

One of the prime areas that doesn't work, so I'm told. (I don't use such 
technology myself, so...)

> This thing's got an 
> Nvidia chipset ethernet card in it, not exactly a common type of ethernet 
> card, at least not in my experience.

My motherboard has the nVidia nForce IV chipset. For quite a while I had 
trouble with various distros not recognising either the Ethernet ports 
or the SATA ports. (Guess where my HD is...) Makes installing the OS 
interesting when it can't find your HD. (Also, the early nForce driver 
would enumerate the HDs in reverse order, which is damn confusing...)

>> :-|   <== not shocked face.
> 
> Given that you're on v7, I'm not surprised. :-)

Well, so many applications won't uninstall cleanly. :-S

>> 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.]
> 
> It can be, particularly with laptops.  As I said, 5 years ago, it was 
> fairly painful on laptops (in particular), but today the support is very 
> good.

Something like 8 years ago, I was manually editing the X11 configuration 
file to tell it what DAC chip my graphics card has in it... o_O

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