"For the record: When someone who is around 45 year old and used the pc only for office and email say: "Wow, it's amazing and so easy", then Riddell, his team did a great job."
I completely agree. Most people who don't play third party games love Linux in my experience. Especially Ubuntu and Kubuntu.
Vicky brought her Petri dish, I mean Windows XP box to my place because it had been running very, very slow, she had notifications telling her to buy anti-spyware software, and she couldn't do anything on the internet.
She had one of the worst virus and spyware infestations I had seen in a very long time. It was really indescribably bad.
Michelle had come to me a while back complaining about her *gulp* Windows 98 machine. Both the operating system, and the machine itself, were very slow. But she didn't see why she had to buy a whole new machine, and/or upgrade Windows just to use the computer for what she used it for.
Michelle used the computer for surfing the internet, playing simple games like solitaire and instant messaging.
I suggested that, rather than spending $500+ on a new virus box, she let me install Ubuntu Linux instead.
