People keep acting like normal people can't use Linux, but that hasn't been true in more than ten years. Just have them start with something like Debian or Mint rather than something like Arch or Gentoo.
Meanwhile when the Linux solution is to open the terminal and type the thing, and you open the terminal and type the thing, it actually fixes the problem.
Are we all such jerks that we can't spend a few hours a year talking to our families and instead have to subject them to the ravages of whatever scammer's blogspam SEOs itself to the first page of Google?