At the end of the day, it'll be a matter of taste and how much anyone's willing to "play around". For example, my 9 years old son started with Zorin when he was 6, and has never looked back,whereas my 11 years old daughter started with Zorin at 8, saw me on PopOS and a couple of months later moved to that. Then we gave her an old HP X360 for school when she needs a laptop, and she went with Nobara, and my wife finally dropped Windows about a month or 2 ago, and chose Fedora because that's what I use and she figures I can resolve anything quickly for her since that's also what I use.
Yes, My house is now spyware free on all PCs and Laptops 🥰
For one, I'm a sucker for bleeding edge, so the constant updates, including kernels, are a godsent. Then there's my overall experience when compared to other bases. For example, I love PopOS, but even in my S76 Gazelle, it would break regularly (it could have something to do with all the tinkering I constantly do, but who knows), whereas with Fedora, since F37, I've barely had to tweak anything other than the DE and have yet to see it fail.
I also tried Arch (Endeavour actually), but I find managing it unnecessarily convoluted for my taste.
I'm sure my love for Fedora comes from my personal experience based on my use cases and the hardware I use. It's not without it's kinks though, I used to hate how slow DNF is when compared to APT, but DNF5 has been working flawlessly and fast for a couple of months now. And be aware, in terms of performance for some intensive graphical stuff, I feel Fedora falls a bit behind any Ubuntu/Devian based distro, but not noticeably enough for me to go back.
Agree to disagree. I keep trying Debian and Debian based distros, same with Arch based (looking at you, Endeavor), and always end up back on Fedora or one of it's spins.
My use of session is limited to my kids, wife and a couple of friends. I had high hopes for it when I started using it, but its devs have fallen incredibly short. I have also tried SimpleX on and off, but for some reason, it drinks battery like there's no tomorrow, so I'm off of it for now.
Easy in terms of installing windows? No harder than a normal install in any situation. Easy in terms of usability? Can't even imagine ever trying. Have a hard enough time using my windows cloud r at work.
If by "average" you mean someone with little to no technical background AND not willing to make too much of an effort, it's still super easy by getting something like a Synology or QNAP NAS.
RecordScreen.io works for me when I want to do that. It's supposed to record locally (I've tried and have seen no data leaving my computer, but maybe should try taking it offline while recording, see if it breaks).
Unfortunately the fact is that some games are patched to run on Windows exclusively. For some, no amount of tinkering will give you a working game.
In my house there is 1 windows machine remaining, and it's for a software that my wife needs to use once per month for her business,anx she doesn't want to hear about a VM, but we all rock some distro as our daily drivers, thank God.
If you're not going to be tinkering, and all you want is your computer to work, absolutely.