Linked by Barry Smith on Wed 26th Nov 2003 18:11 UTC
It seems to me that a lot of attention lately in the commercial Linux development area has concentrated on either large enterprise customers, or wooing the home user who can barely turn a computer on. Even distros claiming to offer the perfect solution for both ends of the spectrum don't quite seem to fit what I am looking for. 
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Disabling onboard Intel 810 graphics is just not possible. You can set primary display to PCI in the BIOS, but this does not mean that your onboard graphics are disabled. I don't care if your BIOS tells you it's disabled, it's not.
Think about it - what would happen if you disabled onboard video, inserted a PCI card (810 has no AGP slots), then your PCI card died or you removed it? You would have no way to restore your onboard video short of pulling the CMOS battery, which is not grandma-level computing, so Intel would not do that to you.
I think Lindows did the right thing. +1 for Lindows, -1 for the author's hardware ignorance.
BTW, I have never used Lindows and never plan to. I've tried many distributions and I have not found one that does everything, and it has been exceedingly difficult to play games with my ATI Radeon 9700 on an Intel 865-based board - the hardware is too new.
I'm preparing to install Gentoo, having already played with Red Hat (er, uh, Fedora), SuSE (didn't like it), Mandrake (really didn't like it), Slackware (my first love, which I still like a lot), Yoper (good but not quite good enough), Debian Woody (default install had software that was too ancient), and a couple of the smaller, specialized distros from Distrowatch.com. Gentoo appears to be replacing Slack as the defacto Geek system and I can't live without APT-GET anymore, so here I go!