Which Linux distro for beginners (with requirements)
A friend of someone related doesn't have a laptop nowadays, but needs one. Now we have 2 old laptops at home, and we want to give her one so she can do some things on it. Since she isn't used to laptops and the old laptops wouldn't run a Windows 11 (I don't want to install a Win10 because of end of support and lacking security features), I guess installing a simple Linux is fine. Now comes the big question: Which Linux distro should I install? (see requirements below)
optionally, her friends (which probably use Windows/ Mac) should be able to help her (since she never had a laptop before)
eventually German forum/ German Guides
I'm using Linux/ Manjaro for myself but don't have any experience with beginner-friendly distros. I used a KDE neon for some time and also have used Ubuntu, and to be honest, they seem beginner-friendly too.
I've yet to find a distro with NZ English 😆. I'd love to just start a new dictionary and add words to it for all the spell checks, but I've never worked out how to do this. I'm not sure there's even system level spell check.
Haha I get that I can't really expect better than "English", or maybe "US English" and "UK English", but having a system wide dictionary I can add words to by right clicking and choosing "add to dictionary" would be nice.
As for NZ English words, it would mostly be words that have come from the Māori language including place names and people's names.
In theory having multi-language spell check would solve most of the issues, but I've never seen Māori as a supported language on Linux.
For some examples of words, there are place names like Taranaki, Te Anau, Te Awamutu. People's names like Hone Harawera or Apirana Ngata. And common words and phrases that have made it into English like Kia ora (mostly used in English as a greeting) and Aotearoa (a name for New Zealand). There will also be company and product names as well.