A lot of windows users are put off linux as they think it is too complicated with long words like kernel and other rubbish like that, linux users like to use words nobody else in the world understands, now I generally run both windows and linux on my pcs, the difficult bit is some switcher thing so you can change between operating systems, never understood that bit but there has always been a switcher on each pc I have set up so no idea what all that rubbish is about.

Anyway if you can set up a gmail or hotmail account you can now run Ubuntu, I just done this pc today, just go here http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download and have a look, all I done was use the windows installer, ie click and download that, open it, choose a name and password and then it downloads ubuntu, install, reboot and your up and running, you also have the choice of burning a cd to install it or sticking it in a usb, with the windows installer it leaves all your windows stuff alone and installs itself in a spare bit of hard disk, now when I boot up I can choose which I want, ie windows or ubuntu.

And you can go direct to Canonical and download Ubuntu from there

http://www.canonical.com/about-ubuntu/for-you

OR
ON CD from https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

canonical, now there's a big long word that is sure to put most people off

The best way to introduce newcomers to Ubuntu is via http://wubi-installer.org/

It really does not get any simpler or better (except for the slight bug it has upon installation where you have to click Continue about 30 times).

Hi Friend,
You can save hundreds by buying a computer without Windows installed on it and install Linux instead. Secondly it is very robust and not nearly as crash prone or buggy as Windows. Linux is also far more flexible, secure and powerful than Windows. But with the added power and flexibility comes some added complexity.


Thanks,
James

Try Ubuntu, Sabayon, Suse or PCLinux OS. They're pretty much all as close to Windows as you're going to get. However, Linux is Linux in whatever distro you get, for the most part.

Of course, windows concentrating on Entertainment..
Since Linux is "open source", we can reproduce it..
and the benefit is no virus at all! (or you can see the viruses wherever it exists!)