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Yeah, other than photoshop/outlook, the day to day is fine for just about everyone.
The days of a kernel update screwing over a video driver aren't quite gone yet. When things go sideways, they are much harder to fix for the average person, and the people with the necessary skill sets are still a bit scarce. Not every family has a cousin Jimmy capable of reading dmesg and screwing with kernel modules.
That said, most of the big ai's are totally capable of walking a non-techie through fixing a pretty screwed up linux box.
But even outlook you can use in the browser for most functionality now which is nice.
I'm getting a new PC for my elderly mom and installing Linux on it. It's just that easy for day-to-day stuff
Great use-case.
99% of the population just needs a good web browser.