While disagreeing, I still upvoted. I think more people should see this suggestion and add their opinion too.

I'm a huge fan of SB/ uBlue, but I don't know if I would recommend it to a new user.

For me personally, it's the best distro ever. It's reliable, modern, AND it doesn't break.

I'm the most talented person ever to break my stuff. I already managed to do that, even on on SB and fixing the kernel panic (+other breakages), which I would have done by reinstalling, was only one reboot and boom, it worked again. I just want to get my tasks done (gaming, etc.) and knowing I never have to spend a weekend reinstalling is godsend.

BUT, things just work differently, and sometimes more complicated. You never install something traditionally, only per container (e.g. Distrobox or Flatpak), which is extremely uncommon. And, there are still here and there some limitations. For example, you will never install a VPN client, since they want to interact and change the base system, which they can't

I would recommend something Debian-based, like Mint. If you don't tinker, they also never break. And most guides are for exactly those distros.

SB is more for either people you KNOW that they will never explore the system (e.g. my mum) and only use their device like a tablet,

or who are exactly this advanced in their Linux journey that they begin tinkering without knowing what they're doing, breaking their system and not being able to fix it themselves. Or they begin distrohopping.

I for example always broke any distro somehow "without doing anything wrong". Reinstalling was always easier than fixing for me.

And I was a huge distrohopper too, which is fixed by now.