Locking down is a great thing. I run a Windows AD domain at home and use group policy to restrict how my kids can blow up the machines. They pretty much can't do anything bad, and I haven't had to remove spyware for months. This is of course not as easy on a stand alone box, but can be done.
Linux looks pretty easy even for a rookie to install, based on the last install I saw of Red Hat. My understanding was that Red Hat was really gearing towards the home user, although I haven't played with it since 6.2.
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