... as I'm just setting up my first 'official' linux box for someone. This person has never owned a computer and professes to know about 10% on how to use one, so I'm going to toss Ubuntu on it and hope for the best.
That was exactly the case with my younger sister. We use the same box that dual boots Ubuntu edgy and Windows XP. I reboot in Windows only to use Dreamweaver. She just finds windows desktop too complex compared to linux and never uses it. So, I really think that for people with no previous exprerience, linux is an easy choice.