Jut put my Mother on mint. Her windows 10 pc is reaching EOS, and I finally convinced her that having to buy a new computer every several years is unacceptable.

Distro-hopped a lot till I landed on Manjaro with XFCE desktop environment. Been daily driving it for about a month now without any complaints. There is an option to install with NVIDIA drivers as well.

I put Mint on a PC for my dad because it's first thing easy for him to use and second a 32-bit machine and Mint the best choice I found that runs on that.

or a distro using kde plasma.

God I hope there will be a good enough solution for professional audio stuff when Win 10 is done. This and when will the new proper CAD software.

It sucks ass, but I don't see how one will be able to change to Linux in those spaces on a professional level. All my private stuff is on Linux systems, though.

I have literally talked to one person at work, that he might want to try out Linux Mint in VM. Dude have never used Linux, but seems to be skilled enough to install it on his own.

I tried mint for a little bit but ended up using Kubuntu.

Linux doesn't run what I need, getting some form of LTSC is my only option.

I’ve been learning Linux (Ubuntu) with an old Laptop a friend was going to throw away.

I like it, but I’m not ready to switch. My biggest complaint… why the hell is it so hard to access an external drive??

I eventually got it, but now I can’t for the life of me remember the command line I used to set access for the first one to set up another one.

Closer to the EoL time, someone is going to release a version of Linux that is basically windows, with a super locked down interface etc to make it so newbies can install and use with zero CLI or setup.

Or at least some serious consumer-grade onboarding.

Presumably it will have reduced functionality to make it as stable as humanly possible too.

And they'll probably become one of the larger distributions until people get the confidence to "upgrade" to a more complex one.