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Linux Mint for everyday users, Pop!OS for gamers, OpenSUSE or Manjaro for thechy people with already good windows skills.
Why not Ubuntu? I don't trust Canonical. They're a bussiness, and they made several questionable decisions in the past.
I agree except for Manjaro. EndeavourOS is a better Arch derivative I think. There are quite a few reasons but the one that bugs me the most is I’ve had things break because they hold back packages from upstream.
now that arch has an actual install script, i'm not sure if there's much reason to use an arch derivative instead of just using arch
A beginner wouldn't want to use an install script. Unless it's changed since i used it a few months ago it's much less user friendly than a gui installer like the one ubuntu has