"Are you really going to set your parents up with a Linux box and provide support for them?"

Yes. I already have. My grandmother too. And an Uncle, some friends and some neighbors.

"Of course not, they already know how to use Windows and that's what they want."

See, that's the thing. They DON'T know how to use Windows. They know where the icon is for the thing they want to do. Put the same in the same place with the same wallpaper and they go about their business happily.

Happier even, because their system doesn't cause them grief anymore.

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