they installed Ubuntu.They were getting very frustrated with this idea that >they should have to spend weeks figuring out how to get things working that >worked fine on Windows.
-I spend this summer trying to get Ubuntu work on an iMac and was rather astonished by the discovery that it had trouble with something simple like video-card (ATI) drivers. In the end I gave up... I've got more om my mind than figuring out these kind of things. As long these elementary problems aren't addressed, Linux won't make onto the desktop. As an OS it might be suited for servers, but that's where it will probably stay.
AvS