I recommend using linux OS atleast as a secondary OS before one goes for it as it Does rock your world once you get used to it. Internet works wonders on it as compared to windows OS in terms of usage and speed both of your computer and you internet.

My sound works better than Vista and/or Windows 7, so does almost everything else. If you have ever used Apple iPhone, you can have a bit understanding of 'Repository' system because all of what you need for your linux OS comes from repositories. You cant have a 'My Computer' in which you can do a lot of stuff easily (Yes, Linux is not easy but its worth the efforts). You can't expect Linux based OS to provide the all Graphic eye candies Microsoft has been selling to us since decades and other time wasting features most people won't even need (Linux based OS these days are fully customizable as I found). Laptop goes into 'bad state' whenever it is shutdown or rebooted from SUSE. But I must add here that anyone who wishes to use Linux as his/her Operating System must know that it is entirely different OS than Windows. 3) Hot Keys (some of them most of the time -) This laptop (as many other HP laptops in this page) suffers from 'bad state' problem.

I was using Windows 7 earlier than I installed ubuntu on it (Formatted the 'Entire Hard disk' and made Linux partitioning with ext4 file system) but I must say that besides the fact that more than half of the ubuntu OS is Command Line based as opposed to Windows OS which is totally menu based, I am enjoying Ubuntu. But everything else is smooth as silk and am enjoying it. It does have a webcam but haven't tried it nor have I tried Wireless yet. I have HP Pavillion dv-6460ee and am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

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