Do you actually think Linux is ready for regular non technical users yet

[LifeAdmin]

Been daily driving Linux for about two years now and I genuinely think the software side has caught up, the honest remaining barrier is just habit and specific proprietary software people won't give up

Curious what people's actual honest take is here, not the usual tribal answer, genuinely whether you'd hand a distro to your non technical parent without a follow up support call within the week

[Glenn82]

Handed my mom a Linux laptop last year purely out of necessity, she's never noticed the difference for basic browsing and email, so yes for that use case at least

[LurkingLegend]

Still no, the moment anything goes even slightly wrong the troubleshooting expects a level of comfort with a terminal that most regular users don't have and shouldn't need

[NightHarbour30]

Depends entirely on the specific distro, some of the newer beginner focused ones handle almost everything through a GUI now without ever needing the command line

[Rob72]

Software compatibility is still the real blocker in my experience, the OS itself is fine but plenty of people are locked into specific Windows only professional tools

[Kayla73]

I think it's ready but the industry isn't, so many websites and services still assume Windows or Mac exclusively and quietly break or misbehave on Linux

[Nadir Wolfhound]

Handed it to my technically illiterate sibling as an experiment and honestly they've had fewer problems than they used to have on Windows, surprised me