Just install Fedora, half the issues with other distro's will trip up a beginner, Fedora just works, minimal issues and because it's mostly upstream it doesn't have strange patches that cause issues.
It's also a very boring distro, barely any changes made for the sake of branding, regular updates and stable versions of the software.
One last thing, it's the community version of the biggest Enterprise Linux a test bed for new things before they hit Ubuntu etc.
Just install Fedora, half the issues with other distro's will trip up a beginner, Fedora just works, minimal issues and because it's mostly upstream it doesn't have strange patches that cause issues.
It's also a very boring distro, barely any changes made for the sake of branding, regular updates and stable versions of the software.
One last thing, it's the community version of the biggest Enterprise Linux a test bed for new things before they hit Ubuntu etc.