Is Linspire still supposed to be the easiest distro for an entrenched Windows user to transition to? Do they have a live CD?
My Dad is still running 98, and he's having the normal accumulation of problems that 98 develops over time. He's thinking of "upgrading" to XP, and I'd like to show him a better way.
More important than compatibility with Windows software, I think, would be something that worked smoothly without a lot of patching and updating. That might bring him over, especially on a Live CD.
(Evangelisim is wasted here - if he has to work too hard to do it the "right" way, he won't.)