Personal note: I am not very knowledgeable on computers.
I have a new solid state drive after my old hard drive's Windows key apparently 'expired.'
The ssd is preloaded with Windows 10 because of familiarity and 'muh gaymes', but I do want to start getting away from Microsoft stuff (including the OS) on principle.
I know internet browser options are currently a bit "pick your poison." I've been satisfied with Brave and Waterfox, and previously Pale Moon (dropped for some website or add-in functionality I can't remember from years ago).
Besides that, I was thinking this might be a good opportunity to learn about current software/projects doing things properly.
So, I'll just share what programs I see among my hard drive files... 7zip, SumatraPDF, VLC, Audacity (which I recall seeing got bought), Steam, Dropbox, MusicBee (music player and manager), OpenOffice, and some game emulators for a Nintendo fanboomer.
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I use Fedora Linux w/ KDE desktop. I prefer the KDE desktop. Although if I were to suggest a beginner user I'd probably steer them towards a Ubuntu Linux just for ease of learning. Browser I still just use Brave because I like it the best.. otherwise the same stuff. I don't game on Linux yet though.
A new person to linux should get VirtualBox for Windows first and try out linux in a virtual machine. Full screen it and see if it's for you.
I programmed for linux/solaris/bsd for a decade and I ran Windows as the host because it's better at desktop. Since he's not stuck with Windows 11 there's really no benefit from hosting linux.
or a liveusb
Why VirtualBox when you can just use WSL2?
I've never used WSL2 so maybe it's great, but I'd still say virtualbox just because it's more separate so you know what's going on.