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Just tell him, "Give Linux another shot when you are bored.".
t. Used to be a Windows tryhard w/ baby duck syndrome, told myself exactly this. Took me a while, but I became a penguin a couple years after.
I was ok with windows but frustrated with it's ads and updates. Even back then I liked OSS which I later found out was mostly FOSS and I tried out Linux dual boot on my new computer, I've probably spent 60h on that windows installation and at this point I only have it to change the settings on a usb device that doesn't seem to have Linux support, which I'm considering writing something small for if I figure out how those things work.
Most of those 60h were in the first year and then a couple of hours between Ubuntu and endeavouros, making sure I had my backups even if I couldn't boot into Linux.