Hey #Linux folx of fedi,
my parents have asked me to put Linux on their home use laptops. They mostly only need an office suite and browser. They are both very non-technical and want a system that just works. My father had me install Mint on his old PC, but that unfortunately caved to hardware failure a few months after.

My only question is, am I just installing Mint again, or is there another distro that is better suited?
It needs to be something that can be operated perfectly fine without the command line so they have a real choice what to use. I'm too far off the deep end to know good beginner-friendly "just works" distros and I don't have the time to test out a dozen distros.

Thanks!  

@nightdice I would suggest to stick to Linux Mint (although I'm a Debian GNU/Linux user since decades).
@nightdice I think Fedora Workstation would be better fit. Basically better version of Mint in every way, and if you want Windows-style taskbar you can just install Dash to Panel extension.

@nightdice As there are already different recomendations I want to add mxLinux as all friends and neighbours of mine are ok with it as well as two sites which could help you to a good orientation:

https://mxlinux.org/

https://distrochooser.de/de

https://distrosea.com/de/

MX Linux – Midweight Simple Stable Desktop OS

@nightdice I've had good XP with the "atomic" family of distros
So if the primary usecase browsing, I'd go with fedora silver blue or kinoite (gnome /KDE versions respectively)
@nightdice my dad has been using Ubuntu for a decade now. When he did not use the CLI to "fix" something, everything worked good.