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Honestly, Day 1'ers, I'd rather they run Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, or Fedora. There are strong communities that are noob friendly. Go ahead and install Steam, get some games working, get their feet wet. 99% of the time, they don't need more than basic stuff. Once they're over being afraid of not being in windows, then start distro hopping to whatever they want.
I can really suggest Mint for beginners simply because it has an UI for about everything you need somewhat regularly. This means, that you can use GUIs to get familiar and aren't forced to know your way around the terminal. Its the Ideal beginner Distros (at least from my experience)
AntiX for same reason.
Idk, i really disliked the UI and especially the application launcher.