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Imo Mint is the gold standard for a Distro that just works and meets the needs of most people.
Compared to other debian based distros, right?
I mean, just in general.
Besides Fedora (maybe) I'm not sure other non-deb distros really are recommended for new users.
Besides that, like it or not, nowadays most software is distributed as deb files (until Flatpak fixes it). Using something not debian based requires learning how to port .deb files or use manual dependency resolution for tarballs.
In times of distrobox, package manager and repositories do not matter anymore.
What would you suggest is a better distro for a new Linux user? I've found Mint to be great out of the box, and only needs minor tweaks if you want the Microsoft fonts, for example.