Furry,

I’m glad to see that you’re following Mac’s excellent advice.

Linux, (in my case Ubuntu), is a great OS as long as all you want to do is surf the net and have a built in basic office suite , … and it’s free.

But if you want to do anything more than that, you need to go with Windows 7 or Mac, ... unless of course you enjoy spending countless hours looking for drivers only to find that what you need to use isn't supported.