On 2009-02-06, Pete Keillor wrote:
Thanks, everybody. I've decided that the new laptop will be Windows,
primarily because of applications that aren't available in Linux.
Also, I'll probably have to pick a Windows CAD package, although I'm
going to try the ones available in Linux first.

I would not recommend that anyone gets a Linux laptop as a first Linux
computer. But if someone gives you a free computer, for a desktop, you
can try Linux on it.

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