Methinks they want us to spell ASUS without the 'U'

So I took delivery of an Eee PC today.

And indeed it is indeed very cute, and very Pearl White, and my fingers are are just about small enough for the UK layout keyboard complete with '£' sign, and it has the renowned stupidly large black bezel around the screen and everything!

But ummm, well the out of the box text editing experience lacks just a little something for we English speakers here on the right hand side of the Atlantic Ocean.

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So my first impressions of the ASUS Eee PC...?

It is *indeed* 'Easy to Lean, Easy to Work, Easy to Play' for those values of Easy that involve dicking about at the Unix command line, understanding file permissions and ownership, what sudo is and does, reading man pages and online HOWTOs that assume you know your way around the default filepaths of an OpenOffice install so don't tell you what actually they are, and a certain dose of sheer bloody-mindedness. Or alternatively Easy for those of you in English speaking countries where they prefer spelling ASUS without the 'U'.

:)