Since Windows 11 has recently become borderline unusable in many old PCs, I'm trying to convince some people to try Linux. Problem is that I have spent the last few years with a custom built Archlinux and have no idea what is the recommended starter distro nowadays.

They're stubborn and not willing to learn how to use a terminal or anything of the sort, which clashes with my CS background experience too.

Any recommendations? DPKG distros are okay, but bonus points for rolling release ones.

Edit: thanks for the help y'all! I'll take a look on Mint and maybe Manjaro.

  • johncutting [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    Seconded for manjaro. It's the only distro I tried recently (fedora, endeavor, Ubuntu, opensuse) that got the Nvidia drivers correct right away without any trouble. Solid distro