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Linux for the Airheaded Layman?
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Even though Arch is very well documented, it's not really accessible to newcomers. The documentation assumes that you know the basics, so if you don't, you're screwed. Mint, Pop! and Debian, to some extent, are much more accessible.
As an absolute noob, I can tell you this is not the case for Arch based images though. I've used Manjaro and now settled on Crystal Linux. Both Arch based. They are as easy as any other distro, even more than Debian.
Debian, in their philosophy, provides a pretty bare ones image, and you have to add everything yourself. They don't even ship Flatpak for example.
Pop! Has an archaic Gnome desktop but an otherwise excellent system.
I don't like Mint's desktop environment, but that's very subjective, so no cons there.