@bobstechsite fwiw, mint passed the test of my completely non-techy father.
after bricking his laptop, i gave him a live boot medium so he can access/backup his data & use the computer until i get time to reinstall his windows. a few days later, he asks whether we could install this linux instead. i tell him yes, there should be an install icon. 2 days later, he installed it all by himself, despite never having even installed a program on his windows box.