I agree with Phreakinus here, and most everyone else that shares the same sentiment against you, macintoshman. It's not that big a deal. Like SVP said, it's either the hardware that's not supported that's giving you problems, or you need to read up on how to actually install GNU/Linux on said architecture. The same issues with hardware support would arise on any OS if it's not officially suported. This is why MS used to have a hardware compatibility list (I think they still do that IIRC). So long as you stick with hardware that is well supported, there's nary a problem.
Macintoshman, please don't blame your lack of know-how on installing certain operating systems on the OS itself. And don't tell us what it SHOULD be running on. As it stands, we never thought that we would be running OS X on Intel-based innards, and yet here we are running Intel Macs and some are even running Hackintoshes. So let us run GNU/Linux or whatever else we want on our own hardware (not that we REALLY need your permission)...
kthxbai... :
