This is ironic. Despite our family's history of windows(and a father who won't even touch a mouse), my Mother would much rather use Linux then Windows, simply because she can't get over the moral implications of using windows without paying.
Im sure most of us have parents who woulden't touch Linux.
So her comp is a pentium 200 MMX with a 4MB video card, 64mb ram and Windows 98(or was that 95?).
It's my job to master Linux, so I can teach my Mom. Now I know some distros are more friendly then others, but in the end, if you can find Debian(ultra geeky) easy, then you can make a distro as user friendly as you desire right? IMO(could be wrong) Linux user friendliness only means the distro makers cut a bunch of corners to make less to learn for people fresh from wind0ze.
Thus if I know everything there is(good luck), I could take Geek 2.0 and alter it then show my mom a bunch of shit. I mean if it uses KDE, it uses KDE. I doubt I can cut corners and use a slower distro on a weaker system like that.