"One of my friends switched his mom to Ubuntu, because he was tired of trying to keep her Windows machine running.
Last I heard, she is not having any problems at all, and he said it was very easy to install."
Interesting. Still academic for me. For example, I use Dragon---a program that allows me to speak the text and without typing. That wouldn't work on Ubuntu.
To you have high speed internet?
Do you have high speed internet?