MS products have finally become so crap (at stability and ease-of-use, before we get into the flamewar zone) that I already have one brother onto Linux and Mum is tempted - not because she has geek tendencies, but because it is easier. She won't need to phone me up and be talked through regedt32. She won't need to reinstall drivers for the scanner/printer/camera.

Are we talking about Win9x/WinME here, or real operating systems like Win2k and WinXP ?
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