I love EndeavourOS and I use it myself, but inflicting CLI package management and pacnew files on someone fresh from Windows is like throwing a baby into shark-infested oceans to teach it to swim.

My recommendation for new users is Fedora KDE:

• Almost never has any problems
• Works out of the box
• Up-to-date packages
• GUI package management and upgrades with Discover
• Lots of useful features vs. other desktop environments (such as GNOME that doesn’t even have a minimize button)

Mint is what I’d recommend for an elderly person who just needs to browse the internet and reply to emails, but for someone who needs to get work done it’s Fedora KDE all the way.

Fedora is a great distro. IMO it and Mint are the “it just works” distros.

Hard agree:

• Mint = “Just works”
• Fedora KDE = “Just works but also has a bunch of useful features and up-to-date packages”

Those are photographs…

This. Based on my (elementary) understanding of laser printers, you have to have a laser zap a transfer belt to charge it so that it will elecromagnetically attract the toner, then precisely lay down a fine layer of toner onto the belt, then lay the microplastics + iron filings from the belt onto the page, repeat this four times, then roll the page through a tiny oven to bake on the thin, shiny layer of plastic. It’s very complicated, and have you seen the price of new fuser units or transfer belts?

I mean, toner is also made out of microplastic and iron filings.