Thanks for the contrarian perspective. Sure, there's the pain of dealing with drivers and settings and tweaks with Windows, even with Win7, but it's certainly not any worse than getting Linux to work.
I don't mean to nitpick, but that is one thing I don't find to be true.
Comparing W7 install to Linux Mint, Mint won by landslide on my laptop.
Disregarding the horrorshow of a partition layout from the manufacturer that I had to fix, the mint install was much, much faster and easier, with full support from the get-go.
The drivers thing really is an important point, and even when my Windows install was fully completed, the fact I had to cope with the horrible ASUS shell to use keyboard functions has caused me to not even boot W7 for months.
I use arch on my other machines, and naturally that is a whole other story I wouldn't even dare tell a less tech-savvy person.
