Yeah I have zero experience with atomic distros so I don’t feel like suggesting those, but I have seen good comments in this thread about those as well

Since tech illiterate people don’t really care what’s under the hood as long as it works, I would choose anything with Cinnamon desktop: Gnome is a little alien for newcomers, KDE and XFCE are far too easy to screw up if you don’t know what you’re doing.
If Mint doesn’t work well with you I would suggest either LMDE, stock Debian or the Fedora Cinnamon spin (in this order of priority)

Debian is like retirement on a nice house in the countryside: it’s a predictable life of peace and comfort

Is anyone working at a FOSS and federated alternative to pornhub?

As a concept it’s something I find really cool but as of now I think something like PeerTube is better if you have to self host and easier to be moderated by a community

• Awesome Tiles because I find it simpler than other tiling managers
• Caffeine to keep my laptop awake when I need it
• Clipboard Indicator for easy clipboard history access

For anything else I’m fine with Gnome’s basic workflow

We reached the peak of technology, from now on it’s all gonna be downwards

Debian-head here, daily driving it for the last 5 years. I distrohopped a lot before but Debian made me stay, mainly because of its stability and the fact that it’s community driven.
It’s getting harder everyday making your needs fit your ethics, but this is one of the few cases and it makes me feel good with my choices.

Yeah flatpak won’t work on my Nokia 3310 either, what a shit software…

Edit: if you upvoted this comment, your kneecaps pop when you pick up things from the ground

I’d say Gnome, since I’m so used to it that I feel it doesn’t get in the way of the things I’m doing.
Because that would be my aim: something that doesn’t interfere with the work I am doing.

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Since less techy people tend to use more the mouse/touchpad anyways, I would pick a hard-to-mess-with desktop environment like Cinnamon or Gnome. With KDE, XFCE and such you can screw panels really easily if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Slap Debian under it and there you go

Welcome to the team.
I hope you brought your bouncing shoes because as soon as you’ll get comfortable, you’ll start hopping a lot

I read your comment in my head with the voice of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and made me laugh

I don’t see it that way but I’m not gonna argue, since I have no horse in this race. I’m not an ubuntu hater, I actually think it’s both a good gateway to the FOSS world and a good permanent solutions for those who don’t mind a corporate approach to linux. I just find it funny to take random punches at it once in a while…

Just by how the documentation is written, you should understand who’s its target audience: it’s clearly for new users that want to understand their philosophy.
Is it oversimplified? Yes.
Does this mean it’s misinformation? If I can oversimplify, then no it’s not.

Well Ubuntu os not that bad if you just stick to the ecosystem. I mean… Not everyone… Pffft… Wants to… HmmHMpf… Babysit… Ahahahah I can’t…

Just install Mint

I distro-hopped so many times I got so sick of change that I’ve stuck with Debian for 4 years, the longest ever. It’s a peaceful life.

This post smells like burnt toast

Are you using LibreOffice from the Fedora flatpak repositories? Because they crash on me all the time too