and everyone is different... I am always impressed with the advancements linux has come when I upgrade to a new one.. but I even have my computer illiterate wife running the latest Ubuntu 8 and it works perfect for her. Setting up printers and sharing them between two ubuntu boxes was never easier .. everything was GUI (finally) for linux. When my wife plugs in her USB camera it automatically knows it's a camera and launches some silly "camera" app made for images that allows her to make basic edits in the main screen, copy them to whatever directory she wants and then make more changes..

She loves it.

However - she hates gimp, so we have 1 windows VM in my house for her to run things like Paint Shop Pro, and to watch online movies from Netflix because those clowns don't support Mozilla/Linux.. (which is not linux's fault.. it's Netflix's.)