Just switch to Linux and avoid all the MS angst. Problems solved.
Not so much for the general computer user. I have been playing with the idea of switching to Linux on my home system, but so far, I am not pleased with the ease-of-use. I have been a computer support professional for 10 years, and I am currently an information security manager for a large school district. It still took me 3 days to troubleshoot why my Ubuntu 8.04 install would not recognize my monitor or my nVidia 8600GT video card. If I had that much trouble, how is a casual user going to handle it?
I am also looking at other distros, but Fedora 9 wouldn't even install due to the video driver problem, and I wasn't impressed with OpenSUSE 10.3 from my testing using the live CD. I have also discovered that none of the distros will allow me to run 4 GB of RAM if I am using an nVidia or ATI card, even though I am running the 64-bit versions.
I haven't completely given up yet, but it would be a strong overstatement to say that all problems are solved by switching to Linux...
See My previous post: Some people just can not run Linux. I have one particular friend that can surf the internet with IE, and use some of the MS Office programs but just gets angry and frustrated with Linux no matter which version I attempted to get him used to. So, at this point I have just given up and accept the fact that he will forever be addicted to Windows.