I went to a man’s apartment today on a business matter and while there I noticed that he had an old thick book about Red Hat Linux on his shelf. At one point I made a comment about it and how I had switched to Linux and that it was getting more popular. He made a terse comment about how he had tried it and it was much MUCH too difficult for average users to use and so would never really go anywhere. So during a break I showed him the Ubuntu website and we downloaded an ISO in the background and then later burned it on his XP system and booted from it. His face went something like this...