yapyap parent
Honestly the biggest drawback of Linux for new people is IMO the massive amounts of distros, that choice alone between dozens of distros is enough friction to turn someone off the idea
And then the stupid "solutions" that people propose when something doesn't work in one distro: "have you tried Y distro". And then the new people install it, their original problem solved, but THAT distro has new problems.
this. This fracture also causes issues due to configuration differences between distros and DEs(for example with a screen capture utility I could download from apt registries, it wouldn't work on kde, only gnome, and it's hard to explain that to a parent). The current skirmishes with packaging mechanisms apt/snap/flatpak and Wayland V. X11 only make this more challenging.