Linux Saved My Laptop

So you've read my previous post about my P.O.S. laptop. I recently tried to resurrect it and ended up trying out SuSe 11.1. I'm all thumbs with this distro, but I have been impressed with the way it has handled this challenging hardware environment. I managed to order the recovery discs for my laptop and it wouldn't even reload Vista. I did get SuSe 11.1 to install on the computer and it managed to work with my difficult WiFi card. I still favor Ubuntu, but that distro has had problems with my laptop hardware and I don't blame it. Even when I install Ubuntu I have to work some magic to get that notorious Atheros WiFi card to work. With SuSe 11.1, it seemed to work with it right out of the box. I still have to figure out how to navigate this flavor of Linux. I won't spend too much time... since Ubuntu still reigns... but Linux just kicks ass!!!