The Natural Philosopher wrote:


2/. Buy a cheap reliable PC locally, install LINUX, spend the time to
get it working exactly as desired and install at parents house with
training session.

Linux will do at vastly improved reliability all the basic things -
web, mail, word processing etc.

Of cpurse if they want to edit videos, download gangsta rap, and play
doom, its not the OS of choice...;-)

One reason for using Linux that has not been mentioned, and may not be
understood by Windows users, is that all the software that they could
ever want comes free with most Linux distributions. SuSE is a good one
and easy to install.

--
Geoff Beale
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