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My lady friend has got to be the most tech illiterate person I've met. In as much as I try to educate her, she'll end up saying 'I don't care, just make it do what it do.' She had an old laptop and was getting frustrated because Windows has a tendency to get junked up with crap, and things start not to function properly. So I swapped her Windows OS for Mint. It didn't phase her a bit, and it really wasn't much issue with 'learning' a new OS. Now, she doesn't use the cli and asks me to install something, but if there's an icon, she's good to go. She did mention that it seemed a bit more snappier, which is probably due to the way Linux addresses RAM and resources.
I recommend Linux to a lot of normal, everyday, people, I'll even set them up with a live thumbdrive to test drive and see if it meets their expectations. I think the hesitancy for most people is that they grew up using Windows, and so anything that isn't Windows seems scary. There can be a learning curve if you want to pop the hood and get into the guts, but for the most part the people I recommend Linux to, take to it rather well.