Note

Remember, get familiarized with Desktop Environments. I'm biased to think that among GNOME and Plasma, people will generally like GNOME purely based on personal feelings, mainly because Plasma's default styling isn't what I think most people will find coolest.

Baby Newbie Friendly

I don't know what a computer is but I've seen Windows.

Zorin OS (All round beginner)
Linux Mint MATE (All round beginner)
Linux Mint Cinnamon (All round beginner)

Immutable Distros

Fedora Silverblue
Nitrux Linux

Classy Newbie Friendly

Can use a strange operating system as long as it looks good.

Solus (Budgie flagship)
Ubuntu Budgie (Budgie but with Ubuntu backend)
elementary OS (Minimalist)
Deepin Linux (Aesthetic)
Ubuntu DDE (Deepin but with Ubuntu backend)

Techie Newbie Friendly

Ubuntu (Default, GNOME version of Ubuntu)
Kubuntu (KDE Version of Ubuntu)
Debian
Fedora
Ubuntu Budgie

Gamer Men

Nobara (Fedora based)
Nitrux Linux (Fedora based, Immutable)

Techie Skiller Men

For men of skill and customization

Arch Linux
Void Linux (Like Arch but a more peaceful and friendly community)

Techie God Tier

Gentoo Linux
Custom Linux Distributions (You know what you want here)

SysAdmin

CentOS (Dead)
Debian
Ubuntu
Fedora
RHEL

General Derivatives List

Fedora
- RHEL
  - CentOS
  - Rocky Linux
OpenSUSE
- SUSE Linux Enterprise
Debian
- Ubuntu
  - KITE
- Deepin
- MX Linux
Arch
- Manjaro
- Garuda
Alpine
Solus
Gentoo
Slackware

Awesome

MX Linux (also w/ MATE)
Q4OS
Bodhi Linux
Linux Mint MATE
elementary

Quirky Distros

Lucifer's Linux (Arch)
Ubuntu Satanic Edition
Hannah Montana Linux
Ubuntu Christian Edition

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