I have a desktop at home with both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04. The default boot option is Windows. The machine is about eight years old. By now Windows has bec

I have a desktop at home with both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04. The default boot option is Windows. The machine is about eight years old. By now Windows has become unbearably slow, so the rest of my family (wife, 7 year old, 2 year old) all always choose Ubuntu, and they have no complaints. Of course, everything they do happens in a browser, but that's probably true for a lot of people.