Lonely Lion

I’m still very impressed with Ubuntu, and plan on putting it on some old PC hardware I have for a friend that needs “a computer to check my[his] email, and surf the web.” The hardware isn’t quite up to WinXP power, but should run Ubuntu fine (my test machine is a similar one, and had no problems with Ubuntu, 500mhz P3, 256 mb RAM. )

Although the system for a friend could run WinXP, I’m selfishly using him as a guinea pig, to answer the question, “Can a guy that knows little to nothing about *nix realistically run a nice Linux Desktop Distribution as his primary desktop?”

I wouldn’t do this with Fedora or “straight” Debian, but I think Ubuntu might push the usability factor up enough to consider the experiment.