Linked by Charles Williams on Wed 16th Apr 2003 04:11 UTC
In the previous article, our computer newbie family, Mike, Diane, Mary and Carla, had decided they wanted GNU/Linux installed on the new family/business computer. Debian, via Libranet 2.0, was installed on the system, with appropriate business/office software, as well as the Gnome desktop environment. The next steps involved getting the system configured for easy use and adding various minor tweaks. Mike, Diane and the kids were not involved during the configuration phase of the system. 
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>I started to install debian on my Mac once, when it came up >asking how many sectors of my hardrive to allocate to a >particular partition I threw it away. There is no reason for >any OS today to be that arcane.
Partitioning is generally required by the majority of OSes including windows and I assumse MacOS. There is usually a way of specifying sizes in MB instead of sectors, something I know was in the Debian installer when I used it.
Personally I think the article is spot on - if you buy a PC with Windows or a Mac with OSX you don't have to install the OS yourself. I've built machines with windows for people and from the sounds of it this family is asking the same amount if not fewer questions than those newly introduced to windows.
It just goes to show that Linux is definately usable by a newbie