After last nights talk I came home motivated and began the install of 7.2 on my dell inspiron 3200. Everything went really well. It recognized my xircom combo modem/NIC, video card (neomagic 2mb), prettty much everything but the soundcard. I haven't gone on a search for a fix for that yet, but I don't think it will be a problem.
I feel very good about cutting the MS cord (at least on the laptop). It's rewarding to get it to do everything I did when I had win '98 on here. When I get over to my GF's house tonight I'll see if my SMC wireless card works, and download a lighter WM (using KDE now). Yay! :)
