https://www.pcworld.com/article/2918397/how-to-get-started-with-linux-a-beginners-guide.html
Starting with a live USB from which you can boot Ubuntu is how I got started. A live USB allows you to use Ubuntu without having to install it to your hard drive. You can look up things you don’t understand using the pre-installed Firefox. ArchWiki and just looking stuff up on internet in general is how I slowly got to learn how to use GNU/Linux.
Specifically I recommend
downloading an ISO file from Ubuntu’s official website
using http://rufus.ie to copy that Ubuntu ISO onto a USB stick
rebooting your computer and figuring out how to boot from USB (this is different for each computer, use duckduckgo to look it up)
Alternatively you can use VirtualBox to mess around with a “virtual machine” (a fake computer inside of your computer) and install Ubuntu on there.
Which Linux distro they would want depends on the use case though, I found this site to help choose: https://distrochooser.de/en/, but I can’t assess how accurate that is because I have only used Ubuntu and Debian.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2918397/how-to-get-started-with-linux-a-beginners-guide.html Starting with a live USB from which you can boot Ubuntu is how I got started. A live USB allows you to use Ubuntu without having to install it to your hard drive. You can look up things you don’t understand using the pre-installed Firefox. ArchWiki and just looking stuff up on internet in general is how I slowly got to learn how to use GNU/Linux.
Specifically I recommend
Alternatively you can use VirtualBox to mess around with a “virtual machine” (a fake computer inside of your computer) and install Ubuntu on there.
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Why do you endorse Ubuntu in particular? Ubuntu has done some questionable stuff: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2162000/stallman-slams-ubuntu--calls-amazon-integration--spyware-.html (The way for using a live USB for another distro tends to be quite similar, though.)
Which Linux distro they would want depends on the use case though, I found this site to help choose: https://distrochooser.de/en/, but I can’t assess how accurate that is because I have only used Ubuntu and Debian.
Debian here
Linux Mint Debian version. (I don’t actually use this rn but would recommend instead of Ubuntu especially for beginners)