Gary Krakow of MSNBC has a glowing review of the Lycoris Desktop/LX distribution of Linux.
This distro sounds easy enough for my mom to install, without me even being on the phone!
Lycoris also has a desktop and a laptop that come preloaded with the distro for sale.
Between these guys and LindowsOS, it looks like Linux may be on the fast track to the desktop.
Will it succeed?