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I’ve seen this with my Zoomer sister-in-law. She just recently learned how to use Microsoft - their home and school system was entirely Apple. She’s still not great at troubleshooting.
It's happening a lot, and I see a lot of boomers using the "haw haw kids stupid" behind it, but it's not them, it's the parents fault, and it's really sad honestly.
I learned typing in 6th grade, we had computer classes where we learned Microsoft and Mac, we learned how to do word and excel. A lot of that got me ready for office life.
Now parents and schools just expect that it's easy, but as we're seeing they may pick it up faster, but unless they have a need to learn it they won't. I feel empathy for these kids who are going to be entering the workforce who were failed.
I'm sure that's at least partly because Microsoft products are proprietary and many of their inner workings are undocumented, which is a really bad combination if you've got an obscure problem you need to troubleshoot.
One of the many reasons I like Linux is that there's nothing mysterious about it. Most of the system is reasonably documented, and all of its source code is publicly available. If something is broken, it can be fixed. Nor are there any special restricted uncopyable files; if I need to move the operating system to a different storage device, all I have to do is boot from a USB flash drive, partition the new storage, format the partitions, and copy all the files. (This used to not be the case before UEFI, but now the boot loader lives in a regular file on a plain old FAT32 file system, so it can be copied just like everything else. It can even be RAIDed!)
Generally those systems shouldn't be too different. If you know one you should get the grasp of the other after using it for a bit. Maybe special settings and stuff can be a bit confusing...