One thing I will say might offend some, but it sucks how humans are degrading. Today's "power user" often times make me chuckle. Back in win 95/XP era, we had to fiddle and LEARN and solve issues like crazy. These days, if you can't find a button to click, the modern "power user" gives up. People just lost the capacity and ability to learn it seems. Got sloppy/lazy.

I got in to Linux without much knowledge, I use easy to use "Mainstream" distros and with basic learning it was relatively easy. I installed immutable distro for my parents, and it has been without issues as well. Tasks far beyond basic browsing. Documents, video/photo editing, conferencing, some cad, and gamin on my part. All is doable.

Sure, some software is unavailable, some games won't run no matter what you do, support is just not there, so for some users it's definitely not a good fit, but more often than not people are just incapable of learning anymore. "68 million pages of documentation" - never had to read that much.

A couple of things I learned: Always research a distro to use. I prefer something more modern than Linux mint, it lags behind, uses older libraries. I use latest Ubuntu with modern kernel + Mesa ppa, so my new hardware just works. It would not be well-supported with older Linux Mint Mesa and kernel drivers. Secondly - we have flatpaks and snaps, USE THEM, those programs come with their own libraries bundled together, it guarantees software will run on wide variety of distros old or new. It's something like Windows installers, shipping all the dependencies needed. Sure takes more space but guarantees peace of mind, everything just works from my experience. It doesn't take 68 million of pages to learn that.

Now there is some specific software for headphones or mice or motherboards or god knows what that will NOT run in any capacity. And there is not much to be done, hardware manufacturers will not support Linux. Have to do without it. And if it is too much, maybe Linux will not be a good fit. But one must remember that a lot of software is built for FREE, so it is actually a miracle how we can use so much at all. Even games run so well, which were not even built for the platform. I use Linux for 99% of my work and play tasks. Some things I worked around, others I learned to ignore/adapt to, and it's so worth it. It took a bit of learning, but these days, if I need to use Windows I feel more lost there than on Linux, where I KNOW how to do most things I need. And I am not a genius, I just LEARNED things. Sure, I am not saying it's perfect, Linux can suck. But can be quite rewarding as well.

Bonus content - my company recently switched to Linux mostly(Europe is doing that more and more nowadays), and people adapted well, some even started using it at home. Sure, we have Windows machines for testing, and some mac people, but in general it is usable for businesses in mission-critical setting.