{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Omni (omni)'s status on Thursday, 16-Aug-12 11:32:08 UTC","author_name":"Omni (omni)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/omni","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/1816454","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/12231\" class=\"url\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">darkw00d<\/span><\/a><\/span> What about Linux? It's completely free and Ubuntu and Linux Mint have been considered relatively beginner-friendly. You should definitely give them a try, perhaps you like it more than Windows (and, depending on where you buy it, you may be able to save a fair amount of money by ordering the laptop without OS and putting Linux on it yourself if you burn an installation CD, which also saves you from getting &quot;Laptop Company Registry Optimizer 2000&quot; and &quot;Laptop Company QuickBoot&quot; and similar junk pre-installed).\\"}