For people who are computer savvy, Linux is probably a good thing with a ton of options and not limited to Microsoft.
However, based on my experience, Linux in the hands of a novice or new user is far more than they can handle and probably should be on windows, the main reason is if you get in trouble, a ton of people exist than help you, with linux not so much.
I thunk most users who are inexperienced just want to browse the net and read their email, so Linux is fine for them and easy enough these days (course they jught wanna have someone savvy set it up for,them, but they could probsbly do it themselves without much issue. It’s getting really easy to install it these days. Not much different than Installing windows. My elderly friends have dual boot, which defaults onto Linux desktop, and beleive me they ain’t computer literate at all. They might mess around with settings and not know,how to,fix them if they accidently change them, but they wouldn’t know how to,with windows either. Other than that though, they just turn on the computer and go about their browsing and emailing, and have for years. They even dreaded getting wifi thinkingmit was gonna be a nightmare to do, but everything is just so automatic these days, that setting it up was a breeze.
Novices thougN who,want to get more into the computing process will,have a harder time for sure thoug.h. it can be ver complicated if one runs into problems, and sure there are “help” sites, but my goodness ya gotta be a guru to decifer what they say in many instances. But then again windows can be pretty complicated for some issues too