#Because normally I'd actually champion Linux but like when I see someone defending something I like poorly and being an presumptuous asshole

[quohotos]

To install software all you need to do is type a string of words you don't unstand to invoke super user privaledges to tell your package manager of choice that's named after a joke a programmer thought was funny (get it, it's pacman like the arcade game!). This will only have open source software that may or may not be up to date depending on how the repository is maintained. This repository does not contain any of the software that a child would want to run such as fortnite, minecraft, minecraft mods and modding tools, etc. It does contain a lot of programming and productivity software that today's computer adverse teens are all CHOMPING at the bit to use.*

This is easier then opening a web browser to Google the website of the software you want to run and clicking the big button that says download, then running the file that pops up in your browser's download feed, or simply clicking yes on the auto run diologue if your browser has that enabled.

*(Like do you realize that the sims modding tools and minecraft server jars and itch.io horror games and ai video upscalers and triple A games that people want to run aren't in those package managers? Like no shit it's gonna be more secure if it's just not capable of installing anything you want to run... Not that the operating system even has compatable binaries made for it in the first place.)

I swear to god computer people talking online about how easy computers/linux are are just that xkcd comic about experts in a field overestimating a layperson’s knowledge (“surely the average person must only know 2-3 feldspars”), over and over again. I felt this firsthand back when I was asking for advice when buying my desktop PC. When a casual computer user reads something like this, at least speaking from personal experience, it is nearly incomprehensible. It is wonderful to want to help the less technologically-fortunate, but you have to break things down more than this. You are speaking wingdings at people.