If he does not play games with his machine and you can hack it, try him out on a ubuntu livecd.
Toss it on a flash drive and you can boot of it for him to try out. It will even let you install stuff from ubuntu repositories onto the usb stick.
Toss it on a flash drive and you can boot of it for him to try out. It will even let you install stuff from ubuntu repositories onto the usb stick.