Say a friend is looking for a new system, and said person is not particularly savvy with technology, what system would you point them toward?
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If you grew up with Windows, it's intuitive and easy to you. That Doesn't mean it's intuitive for anyone else. Kids are super confused about Windows these days.
Anyway, I would still recommend Windows because everything is designed to work with it. Normies don't troubleshoot. They just give up and move on. In this regard, you would want something that requires the least amount of troubleshooting. Every OS sucks in this regard, so I just don't have a clear winner here. Windows might still be the least infuriating one though.
However, if they did troubleshoot, they would probably enjoy Linux. Those error messages actually tell you what's wrong and how to fix it. Meanwhile in Windows, the errors are pretty much useless. You'll end up reading a bunch of forum posts where nobody knows what's causing the problem, let alone how to fix it. The best you'll get is a list of 15 things to try. Just hope that at least one of them works. If you have a problem in Linux, you'll usually find a forum post where someone tells you exactly what's causing it and how to fix it.
Normies haven't heard of privacy, and they also watch TV ads. Windows will be fine. They just won't see any reason to switch to Linux.