Stephen J. Rush wrote:

I have two applications that haven't been ported to Linux, so I still have
a Windows XP partition on one of my boxes. Before booting into it, I
disable the wifi tranceiver. Anthing I need to download for use in
Windows gets downloaded with Linux. It's bad enough that you can't buy a
new (non-Apple) personal computer without Vista,

Dell will sell you a PC with any flavor of linux you want on it.