well that you can be sure...
as for the linux you raise i question there...
it depends if she is to fight it and is able to return the system....
then i see that she will never go the linux way (also if she has a ipod and wants seamlessly integrate it with her machine good luck)
if she does keep it and does try hard to use it then only then i can see a linux conversion (to a point though...:))...
since this is her first computer (from what i can see) then it is easier...
if she had a desktop (which has windows vista or xp) then i more inclined that she wont convert...
but were not talking about someone who want to learn....
she wants something that works OOB....
thats what most clients come to me for (well not all more like 55%....)
i say i got a license for office for this much (thorough academic licence) and tell them i can sell it to you for so and so (it works since most of the time the office that i usually get is licensed for up to 3 computers and that includes that if it ever stops working i can be there to fix it at almost no charge (do have to have to have spending money....lol)
i have sometimes the case where a customer comes in with a EEE PC and tells me that what can i do to make it look and work like xp....
most users can differentiate between ubuntu or xp apart from the GUI and think that someone screwed with it....
then i tell them that this is a different OS from xp and they freak and give me a face like if i was speaking chinese...(no offense...
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most people only know windows and mac and thats it....
i wish linux would stand behind a open standard (i know the kernel is standard but i mean like based on standard code and that wont change dramtically on every kernel update which is a nightmare for devs)
but i mean a standard and each of the distros to customize those little bits that wont affect dev and ISV's....