Gertrude
Suggest you give it a try - Install Suse or whatever ... insert CD make similar inputs to Windoze and sit back and have a coffee. Dead simple, Oh and you get all those other things like graphics progs, and an MS Office equivalent etc. at the same time!
Cost?? about one tenth of the Redmond bloatware and no nonsense about hidden parts of the software, plus a higher degree of security from the script kiddies.
None so blind etc
