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I'm a whole lot less computer literate than I was when I attempted it in my 20s, I also really only play some games nowadays and binge watch stupid on YouTube... the computer has become less of my life in my 40s so learning a new system sounds like... work.
Look, to be perfectly honest, I've had to do far less "computery" bullshit on Linux. After about six months of everything just working fast and flawless, I realised Windows is the OS that requires a pretty high level of computer literacy. Even installing Linux is a simple and quick breeze compared to Windows.
All it took was a final, "Oh, for fuck's sake! That's it! I'm fucking done!" moment. I just didn't want to do it anymore. Never had one since. Using a computer is a nice thing again.
I 100% recommend Linux for grandparents!
It's fast and easy and no big deal until you want to do something radical like create a shortcut and pin it to your taskbar, or share a folder on a home network. Or share your screen with a TV... there have been too many damn times where I've wanted to do something that should be simple and the matter of a couple clicks but it sends me down a rabbit hole chasing dependencies and searching terminal commands and spending hours doing something that takes less than a minute on mainstream operating systems. My user experience has drastically improved since I swapped to Plasma but don't pretend everything works perfectly and intuitively immediately for everyone unless the expected use case is literally turning it on and opening a browser.
Wat? I'm on bazzite tbf, a locked garden where you're not allowed to do anything Advanced tbf, but I literally just right click create shortcut. Or if I want to pin it... I right click "add to task manager"
Not sure if you've tried installing things outside of Lutris or Steam, but just for reference here are the instructions for creating a launcher for a program that's not part of a software manager:
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/desktop-create-launchers
I've installed a number of different things on my PC. Almost all are still just self contained .appimages which I don't even need to create a shortcut of, I can just keep the app image where I want it and use that.
Now I haven't had the need to pin any app images to my task manager, so I can't speak to that portion. Personally speaking it is just a non-issue for me is all.
The only time I've ever added any programs go lutris/steam is when its not a native Linux program, and in that case, yeah, I expect to do some fiddling because it wasn't meant for Linux in the first place. This also has the added benefit of letting me use controllers