It depends on your use case. If someone did not have 10+ years of intensive windows using wants to browse, listen to music and read some e-mails for example an

It depends on your use case. If someone did not have 10+ years of intensive windows using wants to browse, listen to music and read some e-mails for example and than Linux or rather Ubuntu is the most attractive solution. You don't to check your anti-virus software every few weeks and upgrade for all your tools a coming automatically. The hardware costs far less than a mac and the software is free, which non of the alternatives is. In fact i do see more and more non-techies with ubuntu net/notebooks (central and southern europe if that matters)