Every new technology is first used by this kind of people (not sure about the age), it is for now just to us to extend the area covered by various communities to non-techie areas. I hope to start with participating in !fanfiction@lemmy.ml and !hpfanfiction@lemmy.world which are hopefully far enough from the usual techie crowd.
Yes, I am afraid we can expect a lot of “It is not Linux, but GNU/Linux” type of arguments. Sorry about that.