This post is a bit long.
Please read it, because there is a serious question here.
A year and a half ago, I bought a new hp presario v6000 with vista home premium.
Total piece of shit. Took me 2 days to extract all the crippleware that it came with.
After a month of dealing with vista (which I loathe), I decided to downgrade to xp. This was very difficult. Almost everything (including the ethernet port) had a proprietary driver I had to find.
Recently, the motherboard fried (rather common on this model).
I am again using the 2004 dell inspiron 2200 I bought on clearance in 2005. It works great.
Here is my question: I intend to purchase a new dell vostro and downgrade it to xp. Do dells generally have lots of proprietary drivers to deal with?
