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I went to Linux out of techie obstinance, but looking at the insane number of "Backup to OneDrive", "Ask Copilot" poison-patterns Windows is constantly adding to 11, I'm really starting to consider whether to suggest Mint to my parents.
I want them to have an experience as close as possible to Windows as they're used to it - and that may not come from Windows anymore.
Do it, got my parents on mint and I daily mint. Other than the occasional trouble shooting, and command prompt work that I do for them when needed, they have been loving it.
And of course pixels for the whole family, as always ;)
Linux mint is great. Even if they need to use the console, there are only so many basic commands they need (and you can write them down in a text file) that they copy-paste that it is a trivia process.
Add a reminder-listing of those commands and what they do at the end of the .bashrc file in their home directory and it will pop up that reminder list automatically whenever they start the terminal.