Quoting Anthony Anson tony.anson@zetnet.co.uk:
I can't see him even trying to wrestle with any flavour of Linux until there is a really pointy-clicky distro.
You know the chap better than I, obviously, but for the true technophobe, surely using linux that has been installed and set up by someone else is just as easy as using any other operating system?
I would have thought that all of the mainstream distros these days are just as pointy clicky in operation as Win98, if the hard bits like installation have already been done?