My 12 year old daughter's hand-me-down Macbook gave up the ghost recently. Out of principle I decided she'd not be getting another Mac and it would be a cold da

My 12 year old daughter's hand-me-down Macbook gave up the ghost recently. Out of principle I decided she'd not be getting another Mac and it would be a cold day in hell before I ever supported a Windows machine again. This left Linux -- I did a bit of research on beginner-friendly distros, with a particular emphasis on ease of use, especially for those coming from Mac/Windows. Zorin featured in my research and in the end I shelled out for the Pro version ($30-$40 IIRC) and chucked it on a Framework laptop. I haven't looked back. Zero support overhead, everything just works: from printers, to trackpad gestures, to bluetooth, to dual monitors, to the fingerprint reader. She has no complaints about it either. And she gets cool points at school cos she's rockin a slick-looking machine with a funky-looking OS while her mates are on buggy Surface Pros or shitty Chromebooks. It's not the most bleeding edge or power user distro, but for bog-standard users it's perfect.