Re:TFA (Score 3, Interesting)

I threw Kubuntu onto an Asus laptop just before school started. Laptop shipped with Vista (shudder). Tried putting a 64bit version of XP on it, ran slower than molasses in January, lousy video, couldn't get the sound card working, etc. Threw on Kubuntu... video ran smoothly out of the box, had to fight with the sound (but only until I found a post in the Ubuntu forums about the well-known problem), got my bluetooth working and was able to sync up my palmpilot, and my iPod with very little trouble.

Asus hardware is just fine, Kubuntu/Ubuntu is just fine. Windows is proving more trouble than it is worth.

All that said, I'll be checking my recovery disk (which I kept, of course) for any interesting files tonight!