My elderly neighbor needed a computer to do accounting, I set her up with Mint on a T430 w/ LibreOffice and told her I'd giver her free support till the laptop died.
5 years on and the only time I've had to fulfill my side of the bargain was when her printer was out of paper and she couldn't find her eye glasses to read the error message.
Fedora is good for servers and corporate environments, Mint is good for a familiar desktop, Ubuntu is good for mac users.
one time a student pirated some expensive CAD software and learned it, that student went on to become the purchasing agent for a company and guess what software the company purchased?
the software that was learned already.
$100 student lisc was pirated and that pirate purchased 10 license at $5k per.
This is one of the reasons Havana is safe af and San Juan is high crime zone
safe but tolerates 0 dissent or unsafe and protests in the highway chased the governor off the island (and it's still high crime and fucked)