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I conclude that as I've been helping people setting their computer as well as teaching people to use various softwares for 15 years :)
I always try to know what things they want to do and their skill level, then recommending software that might be suitable for them. It can be proprietary, but most of the time I tried to recommend FOSS alternative instead.
Hey, I do you one better, I worked professionally as a person teaching people to use various softwares, but it only taught me that we know even less about what people think and how people operate, than we thought we know.