thanks for the advice i do have an update while the pci card still does not work I installed Unbumtu (sp?) and am able to get online through my wireless with the adapter I bought even though I was unable to install it in Windows 7
The "out of the box" hardware support in Linux is astoundingly good. I'm not surprised it worked.
Win7 comes on a DVD, I'm having trouble with the number and frequency of problems I hear about hardware support. Just what is on that DVD if not drivers?
I am thinking of using Unbumtu as my only OS since having two OS's prevents me from installing World of Warcraft on the Linux side because of space
As other folks have mentioned, HD space is cheap now. In fact, I haven't seen anything less that 500GB drives offered in bare-bones machines since 2008.
Still, being a Linux bigot, I can't fault your choice in OS. And if you have Win7 media, keep in mind that Win7 runs just fine on VirtualBox, although super graphical games choke it does allow for those few applications that aren't written for Linux to continue to work for you.
Like NetFlix online streaming, TVU player, PPLive, etc.