[for clarity, I am not talking about servers]

When a non-technical person asks me “which Linux?” I recommend Ubuntu because it is about as gentle an experience as Linux is going to be. The install is friendly and the culture is less RTFM than anything else.

Those are the same reasons I run Ubuntu on my laptops that aren’t running Windows…I prefer low friction to arguable technical superiority. I’ve looked at other distros in the past and decided they weren’t worth the bother…To Me.

But that’s me, not you or anyone else. And my use case not yours or someone else’s.

> and the culture is less RTFM than anything else.

To this point, adding "on ubuntu" to a search gives me better tutorials.

How does that compare to, say, Mint?

Disclaimer: I run on Gentoo, so I genuinely don't know.