Listen, nerds - if you're going to pick This Year to help people switch to Linux, I am begging you to do one thing: _Make sure your friend or parent or grandparent or whoever has backups_. Before you do _anything else_.
Make sure they have all their passwords and accounts somewhere. If you have the means to do so, take a drive image.
Be as sure as you can that they don't lose anything. Even if that's "where the icons are" and "my desktop background pic".
