Muse - Knights of Cydonia is my goto song when I need motivation.

Yeah, in the mean time they should probably copy Russia’s homework and set up their own mesh network.

I felt the same way until I read Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, also by Douglas Adams. I thought that and the sequel were even beter.

Perhaps some legend replaced all the training data with Trolololo?

If like most people they only really need a browser, Linux Mint. If they’re more of a power user, let them try a few DEs (Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon, Cosmic, XFCE) and choose a distro based on which they prefer.