Re:Converting (Score 1)

I am not so sure. I applied heavy pressure to convert my Mum to Ubuntu due to the state of her Windows install meaning that basically nothing worked consistently anymore anyway. The heavy part was required as she had no understanding of any of it, so change == bad. Now, no calls, no issues - have checked. All just works. For basic non-power users (i.e. just browsing, email, simple word processing) it takes some beating in terms of no issues, runs on windows hardware happily (roll on simple Mac installs?). The only issue I can see is that if you hand a linux system over and they have a problem with it, they are going to be forced repeat business unless they know a power user of their own...