My college age son had his Mom's old Mac (that's the EX wife! 
)for a couple years and needed Office so she bought him Parallels and MSOffice for God-knows-how-much money.
A year later, she gave him an old Dell that had too many viruses and malware to be usable to her any longer. He brought it to me and I wiped it clean and put 10.04 on it with OpenOffice. Once I set it up for him, he had no trouble adjusting and no problems at all for a year. Cost = $0.
Last week, for Xmas, she gave him a brand new mid-range Dell lappy with Win7 on it. He played with it for a day and then brought it to me. "Dad, can you put linux on this one too? Windows is just too slow and has too much junk on it." Needless to say, an hour later he was happily running 11.10 and installing a few things for his own use. Every piece of hardware on it (Inspiron N4050) worked out of the box.
Another one bites the dust...
)for a couple years and needed Office so she bought him Parallels and MSOffice for God-knows-how-much money. A year later, she gave him an old Dell that had too many viruses and malware to be usable to her any longer. He brought it to me and I wiped it clean and put 10.04 on it with OpenOffice. Once I set it up for him, he had no trouble adjusting and no problems at all for a year. Cost = $0.
Last week, for Xmas, she gave him a brand new mid-range Dell lappy with Win7 on it. He played with it for a day and then brought it to me. "Dad, can you put linux on this one too? Windows is just too slow and has too much junk on it." Needless to say, an hour later he was happily running 11.10 and installing a few things for his own use. Every piece of hardware on it (Inspiron N4050) worked out of the box.
Another one bites the dust...
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