I'm not sure whether it is possible to do this on a standalone pc, but on an active directory it's easy to lock a user account into a fixed state. they call it a mandatory profile. I've used it at a local community centre and it seems to work pretty good. may e it os possible to use mandatory profiles on a standalone windows box?
I'm running mate on 2 debian boxes, my desktop and my netbook. the only thing I got really annoyed at was that they renamed everything, gnome-panel is mate-panel, that's understandable, but why rename nautilus caja?
other than that my experience is that mate is really a good fork of gnome2.
I'm almost scared to ask, what is the difference between using capslock and shift? It seems like too much effort for me, but how could it affect a program?
I bought a second hand android phone and use it with a dumbphone service, the only thing i really miss is having email working wherever i am, but usually when I'm not in range of a wifi network I have access to I'm not in a great position to handle email anyways. But I do have bejeweled and angry birds!