LINEAR VS NONLINEAR EDITING

If a client gave you some old Digital Video Tapes (DV) and paid you to edit the footage together. Would you use linear or non linear editing? Why? If you had to explain the advantage of one over the other to your client, what would you tell them?

   I would use non-linear because I find it much easier to use. Easier to understand and use. When doing linear editing you can mess up easily and mess up the entire project. You can easily drop the ball. From my point of view, it's a bit more complicated.