Mint, Trisquel. I couldn't run a software on Zorin (aldebaran choregraphe), I tried to solve it but unsuccesfully. So I had to change the distro. I chose Mint. Very friendly. Than switched to Trisquel because it's 100% free and recommended by FSF. But for someone who doesn't care about Free philosophy, I recommend Mint.
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Uh, I don't have a good answer for that, but I'd give them something like Linux Mint anyways. That way they can look up stuff, watch tutorials and don't have a super niche thing running. Or give them one of the popular gaming distros, if it's that.
Idk. Gnome feels very much like Android to me. And KDE follows similar design patterns to Windows. And kids and teenagers tend to figure out all the things they want. If they have the motivation to do so.
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Any distros with Plasma or Cinnamon as it's DE will do the trick. Linux Mint is a good starting choice.
Maybe NixOS.