Even as an EndeavourOS user, I concur: Mint. Why? Cinnamon is hands down the best desktop environment. Beginner friendly default without blasting features in one's face with configs all over the place, yet intuitively customizable for experienced Linux users.
This means she will be able to freely use it without your help, but you will be able to easily fine tune it to her preferences as well.
I honestly tend to think that instead of using search engines where you already have to know what you’re looking for, it might be better to use something like lemmy where you can advertise what you made with a post in an appropriate community.
Obviously both have their place, but POSSE is the magic sauce:“POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.” ―https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Nothing you do to try to make the web a better place matters if nobody can find what you did. There are a lot of precious websites out there that deserve an audience, but instead are languishing in obscurity.
This makes alternative discovery mechanisms an urgent priority of the free and independent web, both document search as well as blog and RSS-feed discovery.”
Cinnamon. After using Xfce and KDE Plasma for years, and having testing Gnome, Budgie, etc., Cinnamon feels like it took the best ingredients from all of them.
The beauty of Linux is the triviality of creating an alias that runs whatever long or short update command by typing "upd" or "release_the_epstein_files". E.g., in ~/.bashrc, place:alias release_the_epstein_files="sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm"
Even though I use EndeavourOS (Arch easy installer), I won't hesitate to vouch for Mint. I'm using its Cinnamon desktop environment (DE) and it's the best user experience I've had after having used Xfce, KDE Plasma, Budgie, Gnome, et cetera.
Hm okay. I'll check again in six months when Belgium isn't a depressing film Noir scene straight from Max Payne 1 & 2.