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What is your new user gonna do with it?
If they just want it to work and be secure, but not feel the cogs, you might be interested in looking into Chromium OS or Fedora Silverblue.
If they are a tech, you might wanna go with a flavor of Ubuntu.
If they are willing to become proficient and experienced with GNU/Linux as a distro as a tech, maybe something like Arch ou Debian?
I guess they are going to use Facebook, Google Meet, LINE, a word processor, and a spreadsheet.
In that case, I would recommend Fedora Silverblue :)
Silverblue is an interesting choice. I'm fascinated by ostree as a technology.