Linux on Laptops

• Linux seems to be more reliable coming out of suspend. Windows 98 will hang on my laptop if I open the lid without either re-connecting the ethernet or unplugging the network card. Linux won't, and will happily let me change networks without rebooting, or even logging out.
• Linux is more reliable, period. My desktop machines at work and at home stay up for months at a time, shutting down only for hardware upgrades and power failures. Since I got Linux installed on my newest laptop early in December, I've only had it turned it off twice (once to prolong battery life, and once to upgrade the RAM).
• Linux has always used the HALT instruction when the CPU is idle, rather than sitting in a tight loop wasting power as Windows does.
• The CVS version-control system is wonderful for synchronizing my working files between work, home, and the laptop. So is rsync, for that matter.
• Using the X window system, I can log in on my laptop from my desktop machine (with its 1600x1280 display) and do anything on it that I could from the keyboard. Any windows I had open will still be there after I've taken the machine home, used it over the weekend, and come back to the office on Monday. I can go the other way, too.
• Because Linux, unlike NT, is a real multi-user OS, I don't have to log out in order to perform system administration tasks or to switch between my work and home personae.
• Linux's excellent multitasking lets me run both a web server and a browser without a noticable performance hit. I can use Netscape and Apache for presentations, and still have plenty of compute capacity left for demonstrations.