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Unpopular opinion: Pressuring / "convincing" non-technical family members into using Linux is bad behaviour. It means that family member is now beholden to you. They almost certainly don't know anyone else who knows anything about Linux, so when they have problems - and they WILL have problems - you are the only person they can turn to. You are giving yourself power over them, essentially for the sake of your own vanity.
@hedders I think this really depends on the family member's attitude toward learning something new. As other folks have also shared, I was the constant Windows tech support for my parents until I suggested switching, to which they were open as a way to improve performance. I put them on a simple, hard-to-break distro and explained how to use the graphical app store; have barely needed to help in the years since. No weird always-on-top search bars, no more printer setups...