Holding me back

I’m scheduled to get a new GT laptop this fall. Given the spyware that OIT installs on machines that log into the domain, I started thinking about getting one of these or these (back when there was a Linux option–WHERE DID IT GO!?!?!?!?!). Since I get lost without a right click and am baffled every time I’m forced to interact with a Mac, I was leaning toward the Linux option (which has now apparently disappeared!).

The only thing keeping me from Linux was the lack of a PDF editor. Perhaps by the time there’s another small PC option that comes with all the drivers preloaded for Linux, there will also be a PDF editor.