It took months for my other half to realize she wasn't on windows anymore after her hdd died and she only knew it because I said I could not install office 365 on Linux so she'd better get used to either libreoffice or onlyoffice is she didn't want to pay 5bucks a month to use a limited web version of office.

If all you do is start a browser and maybe an e-mail client then for the majority of users it will be like Windows.

Sad if that is really the outcome of decades of computing.

What, normalizing being able to access the entire world of knowledge and cultural information, and talk to family and loved one's easily and at any distance?

I know right. Absolute travesty. Come on grandpa, why aren't you programming?

I don't see that it needs to be any more of a rude awakening than when os x went BSD.