I always find it funny when people do that with Windows, Mac, and Linux. It completely misses the fact that Linux can be all of these things.
OS for kids: https://www.sugarlabs.org/
Just works: https://www.linuxmint.com/
Fuck around and find out: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Just works should change from mint to cachyos, fuck around and find out should be gentoo, linux from scratch is you building it from literally nothing, not even torvalds do that (he uses fedora).
Should also have another one, the best:
OpenSuse Tumbleweed
I use it on my work machine, against all managerial shenanigans, truly the best distro.
Edit: I’m drunk, so I’m making the worst comments ever seen
I remember when Gentoo came out and people said it was the simple one
Tumbleweed is amazing. Got me onto Linux for good.
I’ve moved on to CachyOS now. But Tumbleweed truly does not get recommended enough.
OpenSuse, hell yeah
Or Slackware.