Originally Posted by
mbreuer
Yup.
Get a mac
Or, linux.
I solved the household cleaning issue by telling my kids, "next time you click on something and say yes to the spybot warning" you get linux & Open Office. You'll be able to surf, IM and do school work, but sorry about those games."
They've been good ever since (and now are moving to Macs).
Linux as a threat?
That's a reward my friend!
I just sent a "cleaned" pc home with its owner yesterday. I tossed in an older 40gb drive I had laying around and set it to dual boot to ubuntu...loaded OpenOffice, Picasa, Amarok and Thunderbird...setup his ~ to point to his windows My Docs folder...he loved it the setup. I said "you can use windows, but you can also boot into Ubuntu and do everything you could do before"...I even burnt and re-ripped his (25 or so) purchased iTunes tracks to remove the DRM so Amarok would play and sync them.