I don’t talk to my sisters bc they are both mean people. My parents weren’t that great either and I’d get in trouble for shit that was obviously not me. Some of it came out through the years and my parents flipped their shit bc our relationship isn’t great bc of all the groundings for lies that they believed.
Mint and ubuntu are solid places to start linux. You can run them all pretty easy in a virtual machine btw, windows will even auto install ubuntu with the hyper v program. https://imgur.com/a/CFCSUvh Uncheck the secure boot for iso.
They remember when it benefits them I bet.