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Oh God. I thought it was hard helping her with the mac. I have had a good bit of UNIX experience, but little to no Linux. Any helpful hints as to how this would go? I didn’t think changing operating systems was particularly easy on a mac. Hell, I could do it on a pc, but I haven’t a clue where to begin with a mac.
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You might be pleasantly surprised; Ubuntu Linux is a fairly simple clickthrough to install on a x86 PC and I expect it’s reasonably similar for the PPC version. Once it’s installed, it just presents the user with a graphical desktop which is not at all unlike Windows; for a basic web/email machine that has an ethernet connection to a broadband modem/router, there’s absolutely no need for anything scary or complex at all - it just works; the command line is there if you need it, but in this case, you simply won’t.