[Kirkwood]

Best part is they let you upgrade to Win7 Pro as an OS instead of that crappy win8.

[Lexinom]

He'll ship it with no OS if you ask for it. Saves a few bucks off the price.

Ubuntu does everything I want. I've finally made the switch to 100% linux. For my Windows customers there's Remmina, which lets me log onto their Windows systems each week to do my work.

There's Bumblebee which gets around the nVidia nIdiots' lack of support for Linux so I can run processor-intensive 3D programs and take advantage of the video hardware.

Plus, Linux is about 50% faster out of the box than Windows because it lacks the complex plug-and-play layers that keeps Windows slow and heavy.