I run FreeBSD in a VMWare VM on my stinkpad (Score 1)

In our company (global bank) we have a choice of stinkpad, stinkpad, or stinkpad when it comes to having a laptop. They're pretty much universially hated, and as everyone knows, IBM hardware isn't 'IBM compatible'.

We also have to run the corporate cludge of WinNT on our stinkpads. Uglier.

I run FreeBSD on mine in a VMWare virtual machine. It's not fast enough to be useable, but my job being the firewall guy, sometimes I just need an OS I can control properly (ie: not NT) to to kinky network stuff for debugging, etc. It works well enough to suit my requirements.

My boss, stirrer that he is, runs dead rat linux on his stinkpad, then runs the corporate NT cludge in a VMware virtual machine on the redhat. The WinNT support weenies couldn't tell he was running anything other than NT when he asked them to take a look