When I was using linux, I used linux mint. There were some things I did need terminal for, but there's a surprising amount of things that allow you to use a simple gui.

Getting people used to linux with mint or a similar distro that allows clicky things is probably the best way to go imo.

[–] OofShoot@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

What's the best "I don't want to learn anything" distro?

[–] jeta@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

Linux mint I guess. As from my experience, it have almost everything needed by a regular user:

Great application center with flatpak and Flathub enabled out of the box, which already covers almost every application needed by a regular user
Graphical driver installer
Ability to install apt packages without terminal
Good pack of preinstalled applications - it's already possible to do almost everything regular user needs, like browsing the web, working with office documents, reading PDF files and so on
Driverless printer support out of the box

Also it looks awesome out of the box (especially after recent redesign), and works fine even on not so capable hardware

The only thing I don't really like about it is it being based on LTS release of ubuntu, which may lead to some problems on newer hardware. Still can be fixed by installing mainline kernel and adding ppa repositories, but it's not really easy to do without using terminal

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