when i bought my acer laptop from Kolkata the price of my laptop was reduced as I refused to get windows preloaded and it came only with a hardly working version of linpus linux on it... It seems Acer recommends Windows but then they dont have issues if we refuse it.... They gave me a driver cd for Windows though and had none for Linux which was part of their recommendation agenda :-D Though I had probs initially with drivers but ultimately I found all the drivers on Dapper and perusing the Acer developers a bit and thts been awesome............. Regards, Vivek