I have a gaming pal thats not super techy, and kind of lazy, so they’re still on 10.
I really doubt he will ever change to Linux (he complains if we have to play any game not in the steam library, he is not a tinkerer) but I wonder how much I need to remind him to change to either win 10 iot or maybe try Linux? Is it even a concern?
After installing bazzite, the experience was near identical to running windows if all I ever did was play games from my steam library. If anything it was a little better, fallout 4 in particular perfoms much better.
The problems creep in if it’s not a dedicated gaming system, or if you want to do atypical things like install mod managers. Easy enough with a walkthrough but I can see where that would scare off the non technically inclined. However judging from your description of your friend it doesn’t sound like he was doing any of that anyway.