@Damien Jorgensen

"Linux is as usful as a computer full of cow Manure."

I beg to differ... my wife still uses XP Pro (force of habit), but as your average user I've found Ubuntu much easier to install and upgrade. Usual tasks (surfing, e-mailing, Word/Excel...) are as easy as using Windows... after coming to grips with the fact that it doesn't keep your docs in C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents and that OpenOffice doesn't use MS Office shortcuts.

And no, I still don't know what "compiling the kernel" means. :-)