[John Leland 1789]

Linux is certainly available on many new models of PCs here in Shanghai; seems to be gaining popularity.

Our 17 year old son just bought himself a new Acer notebook with nothing on it and installed Linux on it himself. Appears to be working great. Worked wonderfully on 1G of RAM and he then upgraded to 3G and the thing really flies. The graphics are tremendous!

I may dump my MS and let him load Linux on my units.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So which Distro is he running and did he have any trouble with the specifics of the internal laptop hardware?

...like wireless,..sound,..graphics...that is a usual problem area,....and it varies by which distro is used,....

[The Duke]

Here I'm using NX to run a remote desktop into Linux from Windows. It's very nice (even across the Internet), and the perfect way to slowly migrate towards Linux.

Of course you've got to have a server out there to talk to.

[AFreeBird]

I may dump my MS and let him load Linux on my units.

Just got a new Thinkpad, T61. I'm going to install Windows Vista (came with the laptop) as a guest OS under SuSE's Xen virtual machine server. Just to do it, haven't really had the need to run Windows for many years now. No more dual booting. Just call up and load Windows in a window.

New processors (Intel & AMD) have virtualization technology built in, so an unmodified guest OS' can be installed. But if you don't "need" Windows, Linux Rocks! So go for it.

[martin_fierro]

Worked wonderfully on 1G of RAM and he then upgraded to 3G and the thing really flies.

I just upgraded from 512K RAM to 2GB on a P4 Toshiba running Ubuntu Intrepid, and performance increased nicely. 

The graphics are tremendous!

IMHO Compiz Fusion is the bee's knees.