now Roy, lets be honest how often do you 'want' to work
to be fair, Julie was constantly getting fed up that every time windows updated something broke. so about 4-5 months ago I moved her to Ubuntu. I asked her to tell me if anything ever didn't work for her and up to now she's said nowt. So it must be working for some and BTW, it was an out the box install, All I added was Opera, no messing, me fiddling to fix stuff, bang in CD, 1 hpur later its all working as it should.