You will notice that it is difficult to buy at retail a netbook/laptop with a functional and friendly linux installation. And yet many people do run functinal a

You will notice that it is difficult to buy at retail a netbook/laptop with a functional and friendly linux installation. And yet many people do run functinal and friendly linux based operating systems on the same hardware that is currently only available w/ Windows XP. Microsoft OEM contracts and market power have nothing to do with this.