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Yes! As much as I wanted to love Mint and Ubuntu, they just didn't work well for me. Aurora has been amazing.
I am trying to stay with Flatpak apps (for convenience and probably stability, too), but I feel pretty safe installing apps outside of Discover, if needed. Fortunately, most of the stuff I use is already supported as a Flatpak, so it hasn't been a big shock.
I feel like if people started on Linux first, moving to Windows would seem like a massive PITA and a huge backwards! I'll be moving my wife to Bluefin in the near future. She's unbelievably hopeless with computers, but I honestly think it would be easier for her to use Gnome on Bluefin than Windows!
I agree with you, lol. The other day I tried windows 11 at a store, and it was a pain. The learning curve was bigger from windows 10 -> 11 than from windows 10 -> KDE.
I'm curious about your choice of Gnome for your wife, though. If she's hopeless with computers, why give her a less (imho) intuitive DE to play with?
It's like using a chromebook, and the less there is to click on, the better.
Any software she already uses would be available as a flatpak, so even updating is easier vs windows.