In 2017 the local government of Munich announced that they are moving to Windows 10 by 2020, which is a real shame: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/13/mun

In 2017 the local government of Munich announced that they are moving to Windows 10 by 2020, which is a real shame: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/13/munich_committee_says_all_windows_2020/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/13/munich_committee_sa... I think one of their biggest issues is that they had made their own Linux distribution. That is really surprising, and is not the sort of forward-thinking and trendy project that a government organisation anywhere in the world would normally undertake. If they used something like Ubuntu with paid support from Canonical, many of the issues they were facing might have been more easily solvable. In regards to your question, a few years ago I set up Ubuntu Linux for a young family friend (still a child), and they have been fine. They had never really gotten used to Windows and picked up the bad habits, so the transition was pretty easy. They don't do anything 'advanced' though, they just use the software that I pre-installed for them (Chrome, Steam, etc) and install updates when they are prompted. They never touch the terminal or anything.