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Made my father switch to Linux about a year ago, so far he loves it. He has the tech knowledge of an oyster, but so far it worked.
Sure I had some convincing to do at first, but once he realized KDE is basically Windows well done without pesky ads, he was sold.
I still have to do some work from time to time (usually through Rustdesk), but globally it works well.
I have to admit my way of doing this was a bit underhanded (steps bellow), but it worked.
Fast forward almost a year, he didn't boot Windows for at least 6 months, and is pretty happy how snappy Linux is (despite how weak is computer is, he has an Athlon 3000G, paid like fifty bucks years ago, new, with 4GB of RAM, recently upgraded to 8GB with old stock I had around).
What flavor of Linux did you install for your dad? I inconsistently have people with older hardware who are less tech savvy
Aurora Linux (immutable KDE with auto update) on the Desktop, Fedora KDE on the laptop.