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Tbf my mom doesn't know how to install Linux, true, but she also doesn't know how to install Windows. If you give her a bare metal laptop with no OS I would have to install either for her. If linux came preinstalled (say she buys a Framework and chooses Fedora), and she wanted to switch to windows after not liking it, I'd have to install it for her too.
She also doesn't know that she can "search" inside her emails to find something, we're not exactly talking about people who know how to do anything on a computer, so what, do you think I don't have to "provide IT support" no matter what OS she runs? At least with linux I'll be able to help instead of trying to figure out windows fuckery after not using it myself for years now.
As to the iPhone users, yeah they make fun of me too because they're stupid, get good and turn it back on them like I do, "of course I don't use iSpyOS, I use GrapheneOS like a smart person, get good scrub." Those capitulating to the peer pressure are no different than them buying into the marketing, that's part of their marketing.
The Church of Linux can't save everyone's digital souls, but that doesn't mean we have to stop telling people the good word from the books of Torvalds and Stallman.