Fun fact, the M2 licence in California (at least when I took it) uses the same low speed precision turning course that motorcycles do, which is, ironically, even harder to navigate on an automatic transmission moped. I only managed it through a gas and brake, gas and brake, jerky start and stop to keep my speed down enough to make the tight turns.
There's a lot of good thoughts here, but don't forget the effect that rationalization as a coping mechanism has on behavior.
For example if restaurants were so expensive growing up that they never got to go, they have the choice of feeling like they are missing out or rationalizing that what they have is better to stop wanting the things they can't have.
Later when there are affordable restaurants, they still carry that rationalization with them and may not even realize it. They may actually believe it at this point.
Not saying this is the case with your parents, but this kind of thing happens all the time in every culture.
I started on Bazzite when I switched, and it was ok but never felt quite right. After that I switched to Garuda, which is also designed to be a ready right out of the box experience that is gaming and performance focused.
It is based on Arch, so it is currently being kept up to date and has been extremely reliable. Pretty much every issue has been solved with an update and reboot.
As an aside, everyone always pushes KDE, but I personally love xfce, it's worth a look.
After I left Bazzite as "my first Linux" I landed on Garuda. It is Arch based, is gaming and performance focused, comes with different desktop environment options, has pacman and works well with pamac, and has been noob friendly.
Yeah, the NPC chat feature is an obvious miss on their part. It's all the other ai in there that's impressive really. The stuff you didn't notice enough to complain about.
Have you not seen Where Winds Meet? It's exactly this. They clearly used AI pretty heavily in translation and filling in all the corners of the world and NPCs.
On the one hand, I feel your pain, on the other hand... You could have just reinstalled Garuda and chosen a password using characters that exist on a US keyboard to get it all set up before switching your keyboard layout to the one you want and then updating the password.
I just got a HIFI Walker G7 and I'm kinda loving it. It runs full android, is made to be an mp3 player, but operates more like a phone without the phone parts. It has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but apparently has no location services, which is inconvenient if you want navigation, but great for privacy. It even has a camera.
They have non android mp3 players too if you want something more simple.
I've had a great experience as a Linux noob using Garuda. It comes with an Nvidia version and has worked great out of the box.