The main point here, is in your "My parents are NOT technical people". They do not have pre-juices on stuff. My mum uses linux since she was 65. It was her _f

The main point here, is in your "My parents are NOT technical people". They do not have pre-juices on stuff. My mum uses linux since she was 65. It was her _first_ contact with an O.S., she did learn to use most things on her own. In all that cases, they didn't deal with hardware choices, software stack choices, incompatibilities in those layers... they just did get a working browser, spreadsheet or messenger... and used it.