actually i was suprised b/c the first series of acer laptops (the 50k ones they came in with) came with mandrake. one of my colleagues bought that one, and he was so pleased that he kept it running, his intial plan was to format and.. reload... (and hes now mostly converted) hes an end-user period, and would uses it as such. more than a year now.. no issues at all ( of course besides the battery time)
regards Erle