My elderly mother in-law finally gave in to the march of technology -- her G3 PowerMac running OS9 was just too far behind the times to open modern attachments or browse modern sites.

So I gave her an old Pentium-4, and put Ubuntu Linux on it. We tweaked various GNOME desktop settings to make the appearance/behaviour as similar as possible to her former OS9 desktop. She couldn't be happier, and the only time I get support calls is, well.. none so far.

Seven months and counting.

PS: She's also now enjoying using it to watch DVDs and videos that we supply her with. She'd never used a DVD player or watched a digital video before this.