Unbuntu, comes with an office clone that reads and saves documents in MS word, Excell and Powerpoint files, good accounting app gnucash, gimp photo editor which runs neck to neck with photoshop without the big bucks.
Ubuntu installs in 1/3 the time of installing any Windows OS, no OEM numbes required no reboots. And the best part no drivers to hunt down, when it comes to dial up modems make sure its hardware driven and not a soft modem. Linux does not support soft modems with out jumping through hoops.
I routinely load Ubuntu onto a hard drive using my fatest computer, yank the hard drive then install into another computer on the first boot all the drivers are found to match that PC's hardware configuration. Try that with Windows, you'll be making a telehpone call to verify your OEM number.
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