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Bro go with something solid Opensuse, Ubuntu, Fedora or Debian. Mint is old boomer shit.
Your suggestion is not wrong despite people not liking it. OpenSuse Leap or TW and Fedora even SilverBlue can be good for Linux newbies.
I have got both OpenSuse Leap and Fedora 37 on old-people systems and they are happy to browse using Chrome and edit using Libreoffice. etc.
Windows or Linux is as much suitable for the people who can use it and need it. No need to force anyone to use anything.
Except OP's friend doesn't want to run Linux
Hence let the friend run Windows. End of story.