I’ll also add AntiX. (I, non-techie, started with SuSe (over 2 decades ago.))
Or if you’re a bit wacky like my uncle, Puppy (~ boy I really did not expect him to pick puppy as his distro, when I showed him several, but he’s been on it over a decade now, utterly loves it.)
You may not initially be techie, but I have heard some users started with arch (or artix or other non-systemd forks of arch), gentoo, GuixSD, or NixOS, and learn, just by following the documentation, becoming more techie. I think some even went as far as starting with LFS. O_O It may seem daunting at first, but it’s not actually hard, is easy, just takes some time and attention. And, makes things easier in the long run.
Lots of good suggestions there.
I’ll also add AntiX. (I, non-techie, started with SuSe (over 2 decades ago.))
Or if you’re a bit wacky like my uncle, Puppy (~ boy I really did not expect him to pick puppy as his distro, when I showed him several, but he’s been on it over a decade now, utterly loves it.)
You may not initially be techie, but I have heard some users started with arch (or artix or other non-systemd forks of arch), gentoo, GuixSD, or NixOS, and learn, just by following the documentation, becoming more techie. I think some even went as far as starting with LFS. O_O It may seem daunting at first, but it’s not actually hard, is easy, just takes some time and attention. And, makes things easier in the long run.