Fedora Core 6 on my laptop

Last week I bought a new laptop. It's a Toshiba Satellite A205-S4577. This is an Intel Core 2 Duo system with 1GB ram and a 160GB SATA hard disk. It has almost all the other bells and whistles and is running Windows Vista Home Premium. Since I'm a Linux fanatic I wanted to install Fedora Core 6. but I hesitated to do it because I didn't want to hose the new computer. Installing Linux can be tricky at times. My love for Linux got the better of me though. The first thing I needed to do was to take a portion of the disk for my new Linux partition. This turned out to be extremely simple. Vista has a nice partitioning tool called Disk Manager. I ran Disk Manager and grabbed 30GB of the free space for the new partition and told Disk Manager to go to work. This took only a few minutes, much to my surprise. After that all I needed to do was to start the install, booting the computer off of my Fedora Core 6 DVD. I'm not going into the details of the install here. My main point here is that the installation was easy and fast. More importantly, most everything worked. Rebooting after the install was finished I was greeted with a nice graphical user interface, in the correct display resolution. That in itself was a gift. Often times, Linux users find that they need to reconfigure their graphical server before they ever see a nice desktop. It seems to be one of the quirks of running Linux. Not me though, not this time. Everything was there. The only two sticking points were, and still are, sound and wireless networking. I haven't tried too hard to get the wireless fixed as I can just plug a network cable in while I'm home. The sound is a slight sticking point though. I'd like to be able to listen to streaming media or my mp3's if I feel the need. I'll get around to trying to fix sound, but for now I'm just thrilled at the ease of the installation. I'm amazed actually. I thought I was in for a battle. Nice work Fedora.