@PurpleJillybeans@kind.social I'd like to add:

Linux has come a lonnnnnng way thanks to the Internet and Android. Lots and lots of time and effort by devs to improve the ecosystem they are required to work in... and money... brought us to this point. Some distros are slick AF.

I'd suggest not recommending difficult to install distros. Recommend easy ones that come with all the bells and whistles. IE, recommend Pop!_OS, Mint, Ubuntu over Arch, Fedora, Debian.

Remember, these folks are coming from privacy HELL, so can the purism regarding proprietary binaries and let people dip their toes. Let them lead the conversation by asking questions, and try to patiently answer without pulling them into the deep end before they're ready.

Linux used to be ONLY deep. Now, it has a shallow end. Let them swim in that for a while.