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Noob friendly? Linux Mint. It's not the prettiest, but it looks nice enough, especially if you tweak the themes a little, which is super easy.
It's a fantastic all-around distro, and if you use the default Cinnamon desktop environment, it's rock stable and super easy to navigate.
It's what I use on all my personal laptops and also what I set my parents up with when I switched them from Windows to Linux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZf1-bLIHY
This is a pretty good start to make Mint (Cinnamon) look better.
Its basically mall built-in tools.
I ended up just putting icons in the middle (to prepare for works Win11 enshitification).
I also put a user button near the time to allow shutdown and removed the god awful power icons from the start menu (or whatever the app launcher is called).
Theres also an extend thin for a bigger start menu more like a grid but thats personal preference.
I think mint should do some of these things so its not so off putting. It held me back forming for so long but IRS much better.
I prefer mint over fedora. Fedora dosnt seem to have as many apps in the store. Yes you can use a terminal but thats not helping linux become mainstream, mint is.
+1 mint also prompts new users to setup timeshift backups.