Livre d'Or

I acquired an underpowered netbook struggling to run Windows 8. And I thought, there are lots of good reasons why I should nuke that and install a Free-as-in-speech operating system instead. Windows 8 is too bloated for it, and I'm only using it as a portable internet terminal and for some basic word processing, so I don't need it to be compatible with the Windows-using world. And I generally approve of getting away from proprietary software if I can.

( excruciating detail about why I'm still not Linux-enabled )