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Remember the golden rules for those seeking enlightenment.
Older hardware?
Mint
Newer hardware?
Fedora.
Literally only gaming?
Bazzite
And remember to educate them about the concept of Desktop Environments.
If they aren’t overwhelmed, share some possible future “upgrade” paths like CachyOS, Debian, etc.
Just putting a word in for OpenSUSE. I've been happily using Tumbleweed, their rolling distro, for years now on several different machines.
I love OpenSUSE, but would consider it one of those “upgrade path” distros.
Right, yes. Your recommendations are good for new users.
Never tried it but at least it's EU-based.
Mint requires 1GiB minimum to be usable, as do any Canonical clones, and dropped support for 32-bit (or will soon).
So for older software go for TinyCore, Puppy, Porteus or similar.