My girlfriend’s Sony VAIO laptop has been nothing short of a nightmare to maintain. It ran Windows Vista - the Windows M.E. for the Facebook generation - and was indubitably doomed to fail from the OEM.
After addressing one technical problem too many, I decided to do away with Vista on the laptop altogether, and to install a basic Linux distribution. Fedora’s DVD seemed to provide all the tools my partner would ever need in her lifetime of computer-interaction, and so it came to pass that F12 was introduced to the household.
