I'm not Chris, but I've been using GNU/Linux now for six or seven
years. It's great for text web browsing and Email, and just fun...the
GUI, as I say, isn't there yet, and i haven't really been motivated to
play with it much. There are definitely things that it doesn't do as
easily as Windows does for us, and if you want user-friendly, well,
it's not that either. Still, there's a lot to recommend it, esp. for
server applications. And once you get it working the way you want, you
don't have to touch it again, really. (Getting to that state, however,
may be an exercise in frustration...and a lesson in patience.) 
-- 
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV: Executive In Training!
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