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I second this. Linux by its nature is very customizable. Once you start asking about it you’re entering the rabbit hole. There’s no way to help someone navigate that if they don’t know what they want – and they wouldn’t, yet, as a beginner. So I know that recommending the same handful of distros to beginners is trite and has been done do death… but really it’s all you can do until they get a bit more accustomed to the culture, and the community, and they see what’s possible and so on. As a counterexample look at the people holding on to Windows for dear life and how little weight any Linux suggestion carries with them. You can’t get through to someone who doesn’t want to hear it.