Linux to complete first time users [ass time] [open office]

Q: At this moment my brother with me to establish his girlfriend pc thats pretty old. She lost in the window 98 and all Other CD software that came with the (im so far this hasnt ever been formatted, and since its a P3 533, which is a long ass time) at least for the 256 ram.

Anyway, I was thinking of installing Linux. Theyre just surfing the web are writing papers, maybe watching DVDs. OpenOffice can handle things that they need to do each document. I have absolutely basic version of

OpenOffice vs. Microsoft Office 2 97 [microsoft office 97] [open office]

Q: I can either go with my old version of MS Office, or I can go with the new version of OpenOffice. Or could install both, but Ill probably end up with one and stick with it. OO is good enough, or at least better than my old version of MS Office?

How is it that Word 2003 can not save to PDF? [party apps] [open office]

Q: Even the humble OpenOffice can save to PDF. It seems it would be useful if this feature is built

I hate to even more third party apps to add to my computer most of them cause not seem to convert to sound.

Open Office actually did a good job when I used it to convert to PDF.