I personally wouldn't buy a laptop now that I've got the Debian stuff working. I can open MS Office e-mail attachments now with Abiword or OpenOffice; that was the last thing I was really needing, all the rest is icing. But we do need to make the Debian apps easily accessible to the average user out there...

EDIT: I'd use it more than my desktop computer, except for the fact that I gotta be able to do my online FPS gaming, and that doesn't work very well over VNC or X-Forwarding