A Baby Could Install Ubuntu! (FUD)

Our communal room Windows XP PC which everyone uses but nobody owns was infested with viruses , and although I kept eradicating them with various virus programs things got worse and then finally Windows refused to boot. So I had a choice reinstall XP, re-download the service packs, Open Office etc etc or try Ubuntu.

So with nothing to lose I went to the Ubuntu website downloaded the CD image and blew it to a CD (if that worries you they will send you a CD for free). Inserted it in the CD drive (had to press F12 to get it to boot from the CD) and it asked if I wanted to install or just try Ubuntu out.

Cautiously selected try it out and it fired up straight away, I opened Firefox and could immediately browse the Internet. Amazingly I could see the old Windows file structure and I download all photo and files to a portable hard-drive.
Then everything being OK selected full install. The only thing I have to select was Time Zone! Now here's the beauty you get a fully working system with Open Office etc.

It was absolutely painless; now why didn't I do this years ago? Well it was because I'd read all these FUD articles (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) in the technical press, where the writers had made out they'd had trouble with Linux/Ubuntu, now I wonder if these articles weren't ahem sponsored by Microsoft!?