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Nice!
Also I love me some fedora, I run bluefin myself.
My friends likewise contact me with computer problems, usually I help them, Windows stuff I still know well enough.
One guy though, he's been getting more savvy over time. So when he asked me about Windows ten EOL, I was honest with him. I gave him options. I told him about LTSC, and about forcing win11 to run on "older" hardware. And about Linux. And I explained the risks and challenges of each.
I didn't want to force him because I worried that if he didn't choose it, then when it got hard, he would blame me.
Since it was his secondary computer, and it only runs web, text docs, and Minecraft.. He chose to learn Linux. So far he's only ran into a couple issues, one of which was his display not scaling correctly because the default and available resolutions were too high. And when set to the correct resolution, things didn't fit on the screen.
Well it was only half Linux' fault, while it shouldn't have given him 4k options when he didn't have the ability to use it, he shouldn't have been using a 720p TV as a monitor. We had a chuckle, and he found a better monitor with a modern resolution, and he's been happy for months now. No questions asked to me, either it's working or he's solving his own problems.