The last property OS I used before Linux was OS/2 warp.

Next, Install Debian.

Bye!

It is really important that those loved ones understand your language, or else they would get annoyed.

I run Debian since 1998 and am happy.

Usually it takes me less then two weeks to get e.g. a printer to work. Your problem is not the distro but the hopping.

I can still do that, because I understood that problem when it arose.