Might happen. I told my entire family I would not support their windows installs past 10 and 11 is full of spyware. Half bought a mac and half opted to install Linux. IF all you want to do is a browser. Linux is honestly very easy to use.
He's really not a computer guy, and he picked it up no problem.
If she called my bluff I probably would have still helped her, but she was happy enough to use a Mac.