That's my expectation, but I've got a father who forces Microsoft products upon everyone for the reason that they're paid and industry standard and thus must be good (no, there is no argument possible; yes, it's worth the money even if mom touches spreadsheets less than once a year). I have the greatest trouble getting Libreoffice and Thunderbird to be a thing (since I can actually support that over the phone); Linux will be a whole 'nother challenge. He's quite full of himself and people eat it up, and free stuff that nerds use is definitely not on his prestige list

One day for sure though. They're slowly all getting old and asking more of me. Maybe when the current hardware generation needs replacing I'll give it a stab. Indeed, they need very little beyond a browser, Thunderbird (just because they're used to a local email client), a PDF reader (Evince/PdfJS have way fewer buttons and clutter and pop-ups than the Adobe crap), and some WYSIWYG editor compatible with the old doc(x) format (like Libreoffice). The time where local stores shipped photo-album-designer software are probably long gone, though I should double check beforehand

While I agree entirely that Linux in 2026 has never been more usable… how much actual work is being put into Office and 365 tooling native on Linux?

Like none. Literally the best office you MIGHT KIND OF be able to run in 2016, but probably more like 2013.

Valve focused on games, that is awesome and really helpful…

But there are 10,000 distros and instead of putting real resources to put even rickety bridges over MS’s moat, no sorry, this team is making duplication-of-effort distro 10,001 which is now identical to thousands of others but the taskbar is in the middle of screen.

The people working on Linux are consistently uninterested in then things people would need to drop windows.