Some years back, my father converted from Windows to Ubuntu, and was very happy with it --- until the Great Unity Switch. (I believe his phrase was 'it looks li

Some years back, my father converted from Windows to Ubuntu, and was very happy with it --- until the Great Unity Switch. (I believe his phrase was 'it looks like a tinker toy'). I tried him on live CDs for a whole bunch of Linux distributions, to see which ones he liked. Just for fun I added Haiku to the list. Yep, it was the one he liked best from the whole bunch, because it was fast, simple, and the UI had a really low cognitive load. (If you move the Tracker down the bottom of the screen it turns into a classic Win95-style task bar.) Alas, right now it's too unstable to get useful work out of; wireless hardware support is poor and the web browser's not really good enough yet. I'm hoping there'll be a new release RSN, though. The current nightlies look pretty good and there's a really nice package which makes installing and porting software pretty easy.