Speaking directly from my heart... Thank you! Couldn't have said it any better.
I think it's up to us, as you did with this excellent post, to promote wherever we can.

Stigma against Linux is high though. Thing is, it runs much faster than windows on old laptops... I love it.

Oh, and the only windows version I really liked, 3.1 🤣 I used the DOS command prompt to clean house...
It went downhill from there.