It doesn't really matter. I mean obviously it matters what you want to use your computer for, but I use cloud docs/sheets/preso/email apps anyway, and don't play AAA videogames except on console. If my wife wants to go on the internet or make a text document (libreoffice is good) or listen to Spotify or whatever, it's just as easy on Ubuntu as on her mac, the buttons are just in slightly different places. I'd interrogate what your top 5 priorities for a computer are and check if such a thing exists on Ubuntu. You can also boot Ubuntu off a usb thumb drive without having to install it, just to mess around.
Not saying Ubuntu because it's the only option, just because it's always been the stereotypically "easiest" Linux distro to get into. Searching the internet for "<problem> ubuntu" will nearly always return newbie-friendly results versus something like Debian, Fedora or Arch.
It doesn't really matter. I mean obviously it matters what you want to use your computer for, but I use cloud docs/sheets/preso/email apps anyway, and don't play AAA videogames except on console. If my wife wants to go on the internet or make a text document (libreoffice is good) or listen to Spotify or whatever, it's just as easy on Ubuntu as on her mac, the buttons are just in slightly different places. I'd interrogate what your top 5 priorities for a computer are and check if such a thing exists on Ubuntu. You can also boot Ubuntu off a usb thumb drive without having to install it, just to mess around.
Not saying Ubuntu because it's the only option, just because it's always been the stereotypically "easiest" Linux distro to get into. Searching the internet for "<problem> ubuntu" will nearly always return newbie-friendly results versus something like Debian, Fedora or Arch.