I agree..
Removing windows entirely from the presario was not an option. It was a machine in my work office for any customer to use. The Linux boot would have been specifically for me for doing network testing and whatnot.
My laptop dual boots for various PITA windows only things (specifically, our new backup server -REQUIRES- IE to log into it and create new backup shares, we have opened this as a "bug" trouble ticket with the company)
At home I dual boot for games (Counter-Strike/HalfLife).
Re: The HP thread
Sure, it would be nice to erase all traces of Microsoft from your PC. But in my case, I migrated from two perfectly good, networked Windows XP machines. I wanted to get up to speed in Linux, but I still needed my Windows apps for a while (until I converted).
I considered buying a separate computer for Linux but rejected it because I felt it would be an unnecessary cost. I opted for dual booting, and I now happily have two XP/Fedora dual booted networked machines. I share files and printers between Windows and Linux and can run either at will.
There are some caveats, such as converting NTFS partitions to FAT32, and you need to be careful about disk partitioning, but I saved a ton of money through the dual booting route, and learned a lot in the process.
In fact, I think it wouldn't be a bad idea for HP, Dell, or whomoever, to offer a dual boot option. Or perhaps, given your experience, this may be asking too much.
Ira
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