Honeymoon got killed by the choice of a crappy Xandros install on the eee. I'm a full-blown Linux freak^H^H^H^H^Hentusiast, haven't used windows in over ten years, but when I bought the Asus eee and tried using the pre-installed Linux version, it was just nauseating.

Crappy interface, broken functionality (impossible to get the very sleek wifi configuration to actually save its settings) and generally just not superior to a windows install in any conceivable way.

After a week of trying to live with it, I gave up an went through the, at the time, painstaking process of getting Ubuntu onto the machine.

You mean they can't patent something that already exists? How about Microsoft's patent on double-click, granted in 2004 ( Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click ) ? Patent clerk probably double-clicked the patent application document, it still got passed through.