I wrote an article on configuring a desktop Linux system for my retired father. I was subsequently asked to present this article to my local Linux Users Group.
The presentation is available as a PDF which you may download from here. The talk was video recorded and you may wish to view that as well.
In the autumn of 2008 I revised and extended the talk for the UKUUG annual Linux Conference and workshop: Linux 2008. This version incorporates additional elements from the following DAD3 article.