>>106532371
This. She doesn't know what Linux is, she just didn't want her sperg son doing anything weird (this happens every day, she had a reason to show disgust - and luckily OP has be practicing his emotion recognition skills).
Linux Mint with Windows theme would be too subversive for my tastes, but to a normie it's indistinguishable. He should have just installed Mint Cinnamon and said "here you go", and it would have just werked.