Hello,

My wife has a friend who experienced one worm too much and is now
willing to make the switch to Linux :-)

Next week I'll get her PC here to install Linux on it, as well
as some usefull applications.

This women is a clueless user, so mutt won't be the best choise
for mail client :-) This goes for most apps we use everyday.

Now, what shall I put on the machine for her ?

-wm: fvwm95 (this will look familiar to her) or one those
'modern' desktops like gnome or kde (in order to let her
use a graphical file manager).

-browser: she will be less understanding in the matter of
browser-incompatibility due to bad webdesigners.
What would be the best choice, Mozilla or Konqueror or .. ?

-email-client: she will be receiving html-mail (like produced
by incredimail) and probably want to compose html-mail too.
Also clicking on URL's should open them in the browser.
The email-client should be as easy to use as possible.
Yes, I know html-mail is evil (but she doesn't and will
probably never understand why).

-graphical stuff: I don't know yet, but it might be possible
that she has a digital camera. If so, a simple application
to do some simple things (like resising) with jpg's is
nessesairy.

Because she will be used to 'click on something to make things
happen', I am not sure wether open office or one of the kde/gnome
office suites would be the best choice (in terms of "integration"
with the filemanager).

I haven't use kde or gnome myself, and prefer text based
interfaces, which makes ik hard for me to predect what would
be the best solution for people like her.
So any input on that matter is appreciated :-)

Cheers,

Matto