so the laptop came in the mail today, the guy left windows 7 rc on it; I went ahead and installed ubuntu on it. I spent a little time tweaking it, including making a custom panel that works more like in windows. I also used the packet manager and installed the microsoft fonts which was definitely good for website viewing and i also installed flash which was SO much easier than I remembered. Finally I installed songbird, which required me uninstalling another package to get to work but so far so good. I messed with the theme somewhat and its starting to look pretty good. I think im also gonna install mandriva on this so I can compare ubuntu and mandriva side-by side to see which is better.
