I run XFCE Fedora, but I've used all of the 'buntu derivatives. I think Lubuntu/Xubuntu are great suggestions. The Lightweight Desktop Environments are less 'co

I run XFCE Fedora, but I've used all of the 'buntu derivatives. I think Lubuntu/Xubuntu are great suggestions. The Lightweight Desktop Environments are less 'convoluted' in my opinion, in the sense that the just seem to work the way people expect a computer to work. (Think Windows 98 vs. using OS X or Win 10). Ubuntu is a good choice because Apt and dpkg are both easier to use then DNF/YUM, and Ubuntu has basically everything in its repositories. On top of that, the package groups make things really easy to install if you want to try another desktop environment, etc. Plus most of the help you will find when you Google linux problems are from Ubuntu derivatives, which is another good reason to choose one when starting out.