I was not "techy" Jumped about 15 years ago. My (then) laptop was old and that Windows thing was very slow and needed many restarts. My much smarter work colleague showed me his Ubuntu. I installed as dual boot and in less than 12-months had stopped using Windows and installed Ubuntu as the sole OS. Since then, have tried many others, including Puppy. Now on Debian. Still not techy,or in any way competent with the terminal, but linux just works, even for me.