I always recommend Mint. I’m neither particularly fond of KDE nor do I personally use Debian / Ubuntu any more, but I still think it’s a great “beginner” distro.
I use Nobara, which is Fedora-based, and I think it’s great for gaming, but I’m not sure support for it is thorough enough for people who can’t confidently wade into configs.
I always recommend Mint. I’m neither particularly fond of KDE nor do I personally use Debian / Ubuntu any more, but I still think it’s a great “beginner” distro.
I use Nobara, which is Fedora-based, and I think it’s great for gaming, but I’m not sure support for it is thorough enough for people who can’t confidently wade into configs.
Mint doesn’t use KDE out of the box. They have an own DE called Cinnamon.