Think about putting a non-tech person on linux and that whole thing just grinds to a halt. There is a lot of fiddling.
Hardware mostly just works. Plug in a USB stick or a camera or phone, see your files, like any other desktop.
You've got web browsers and basic office software and communications tools and all the rest.
The OS can automatically update for security issues, and that takes care of much of your installed software as well if you're just using the default option of getting things from your distribution. Almost anything to do with this is qualitatively better than modern Windows systems.
Sure, the look and feel is different and it takes a few minutes to find your way around, but then the look and feel is different moving from Windows to macOS, or even from Windows 7 to Windows 10, too.