CurseBunny

"Why else would so many businesses overlook a completely free operating system"

Well, they don't. Plenty of businesses use Linux systems. It's not (only) because it's free, though. The issue of licensing often isn't a factor that comes into play over having a system that just works. It's easy to customize, flexible and comparatively secure. Your experiences with Linux are valid, but many businesses and individuals do use it daily and for good reason.

If you're talking about using sudo you can edit your sudoers file to make it so that whenever you use sudo in a terminal session you don't have to use the password for the remainder of that session. It's not an immediately obvious solution to most people so I'm not saying this to downplay your experience by any means, just letting people know this stuff is changeable

Yeah, Proton has made leaps and bounds the past few years with the sheer amount of time and money Valve is funneling into it. Now you can often expect newly released games to run just fine on Linux through steam, the big remaining hangup being anti-cheat software.

Yeah, but Mint is completely free and doesnt come with much of the software bloat that might be confusing to an older person. It's a simple user experience by design.