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I'm probably gonna be the unlucky soul who has to do all this for my dad, if he chooses Linux Mint. I've showed him the cinnamon version and I'm probably gonna be the one helping him do a clean install after he backs up everything he needs/wants from his laptop. Alongside helping him learn a few things so he can run his laptop without too many issues.
I did exactly that for my mom. Totally non-technical, but she was beginning to absolutely hate all the invasive noise and crap from Windows. All she wanted was to write free of distraction.
So we backed up her files, set up Cinnamon, installed LibreOffice, and imported her files. I set the system up to be offline, since it's her no-distractions computer, showed her the basics of using it, and basically haven't heard a peep about it since.
Linux just works, without the bullshit.