> I originally advised my mother to migrate from Microsoft Windows on the desktop to Linux because before that I had to go to her apartment about once a year to

> I originally advised my mother to migrate from Microsoft Windows on the desktop to Linux because before that I had to go to her apartment about once a year to make a clean install of Windows because Windows had suddenly broken and didn't work any longer, or because everything suddenly started to become really slow. The classical Windows problems. Back in the Windows 95/98/Millenium days this was sooooo common and problematic that, as "the computer guy" in my friends and family circle, and because I hated Windows with a passion (I was already using Linux), I'd use the same ballistic solution: I'd perform a clean install, once. Then I'd use Ghost to image the install (Ghost from already way back before Norton bought it and it'd became Norton Ghost). Then I'd keep copies, on HDDs, of everybody in my circle's Windows clean install. Once every x months someone would call and I'd re-image the clean system. What a piece of turd.