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Unpopular opinion: Pressuring / "convincing" non-technical family members into using Linux is bad behaviour. It means that family member is now beholden to you. They almost certainly don't know anyone else who knows anything about Linux, so when they have problems - and they WILL have problems - you are the only person they can turn to. You are giving yourself power over them, essentially for the sake of your own vanity.
@hedders I was fortunate with my Dad, he asked me to put Linux on, but then he also learned how to manage Linux.
But he was an engineer and despite not being a programmer, he'd learned in the past. So yeah definitely not a non techie.
He also decided to use tor.
But not every family member has that confidence or knowledge of being able to find out and learn about computing.
It's irresponsible to just install Linux and with no other support than you.
> I refuse to act on Windows machines.
And that is the problem right there, because that makes it about your ego, not their interests.
@hedders No. That's about extending the existence of an extractive business model.
If they feel like wasting money on it, they should see it through the end.
