Probably after the big move, though; things are kinda busy right now.
Joy had been OK with Windows Bloody Ten on her laptop, but then she got a subnotebook with Windows Tennis or whatever it's called, started exploring what the Cloud features are and how they work, enabled Cloud on her laptop, ran into all manner of complications and lack of control over what ended up on Microsoft's Mystery Servers, jumped through hoops to disable Cloud on the laptop, and...
Well, she's suddenly developed a profound distrust of Microsoft. (She already distrusts Facebook, Google, and, to a lesser extent, Apple. As does anyone who's paying attention.)
Sometime in the not-too-distant future it'll be time to pull the hard drive from her laptop, shove it in the archives, install a new drive (maybe even an SSD), and set her up with nice user-friendly Linux, with no Cloud and no built-in spyware. And maybe a Windows VM, not necessarily with any 'Net connectivity, for those times when she absolutely must run Windows-only software.
Update: Huh. Prices on SSDs have come down considerably of late; I'm seeing high-rated, name-brand terabyte units for not much over a hundred bucks on Newegg. So replacing an old HDD with an SSD, getting the performance and reliability upgrade and increasing the capacity, is not a big deal, monetarily speaking.
... At some point, I'll be shopping for a whole new laptop myself, to replace the one that's currently held together with J-B Weld. But I think that's a next-year thing, at which point I'll likely be getting a better CPU, more RAM, and more SSD for the same money. (General requirements, in final configuration: full-HD display, around 15.6"; usable keyboard; zippy-fast quad-core CPU; 16GB or so RAM; terabyte SSD; latest WiFi. CPUs are getting faster for a given price point, and RAM, I think, is getting cheaper. SSD, as noted, is definitely getting cheaper.)
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