Hooray! I'm a big doofus

So my much anticipated new machine arrived yesterday. I played with the default OS for a little bit, then attempted to install Kubuntu over the internet. I was a bit confused by the partitioning dialog, as this is the first time I was attempting to leave the previous occupant on board. Well, it went fine, until deep in the install (note: my ADSL has been shakey lately) and I could no longer see the screen. I attempted to blindly abort which only caused the whole thing to be useless.

So today, I went out and bought a USB CD/DVD drive and tried to "recover" Windows. no dice. And all they ship you are the Recovery Disks, no the install disks. i had a pirated copy of XP but it doesn't have all the shiny Tablet stuff or the drivers so forget that. Right now, i am in the midst of installing Kubuntu from an Alternate installation CD and feel pretty dedicated to using FOSS only solution on this machine, particularly as i will be going to the UN next week as an advocate for using FOSS, I had better eat my own dogfood, as they like to say.

When I am done with several other balls in the air, i'll post thee Unboxing photos. hehe