I need a bit of convincing...

[ElephantGun]

I'm going to be switching to some version of ubuntu by september, for school-related purposes. I'm ordering a laptop specifically for this purpose: a thinkpad T61p. I'm also going to be using it for east-asian language purposes, because japanese is one of the courses that I'm subtituting for a credit.

So a couple of questions.

Is the thinkpad hardware fully compatible with kubuntu? (or at least with minimal tweaking)
Is installing kubuntu and then GNOME on top ideal if I want to switch environments?
I read about skim as an input method and it seems wonderful, except I need to know if the tomoe handwriting recognizer works with it as it does with scim.

Or, if you think you have a better laptop for a better price, that works too.

Thanks!

[Snowhog]

Re: I need a bit of convincing...

If you want an 'out of the box' trouble free 'it all works' laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed, then you should look at Dell PCs Featuring Ubuntu and also check out Linux Certified Laptops.

[ElephantGun]

Re: I need a bit of convincing...

Thanks for the second link, turns out the T61's fully supported by pretty much all distros.

[spotslayer]

Re: I need a bit of convincing...

I have a T61 with the intel video. The only thing that does not work are some of the special keys. Most do work but not all. I can run CompizFusion without much trouble.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

This is a great source of info.

David