I love EndeavourOS and I use it myself, but inflicting CLI package management and pacnew files on someone fresh from Windows is like throwing a baby into shark-infested oceans to teach it to swim.

My recommendation for new users is Fedora KDE:

• Almost never has any problems
• Works out of the box
• Up-to-date packages
• GUI package management and upgrades with Discover
• Lots of useful features vs. other desktop environments (such as GNOME that doesn’t even have a minimize button)

Mint is what I’d recommend for an elderly person who just needs to browse the internet and reply to emails, but for someone who needs to get work done it’s Fedora KDE all the way.

Fedora is a great distro. IMO it and Mint are the “it just works” distros.

Hard agree:

• Mint = “Just works”
• Fedora KDE = “Just works but also has a bunch of useful features and up-to-date packages”