HI, I recently switched a 83 year old ex-mother superior from, gag-me win vista to Ubuntu 9.10 with out a hitch, she immediately fell in love with the interface, the philosophy behind, menu location everything, only issue we had was getting her ipod to work, took me a day, only cause I know so little about ipod and apples hold on the hardware, anyway gtkpod works like a champ now and I have one very happy Lady using Ubuntu