Linux Mint is one of the most recommended for newbies.
You can use a live CD/USB to try it out without installing.

Most old FOSS is written and maintained in programming languages that Kids these days™ don't think are cool (and were probably never taught about in school either).

Hardware used to come with an extensive manual. Hardware these days is a vendor-locked black-box with built-in obsolescence that might get you in court if you open it.

Kids were more curious and spent more time outside, Kids these days™ spend most of their time under the light of screens, inside their safe spaces and can't even tie their shoelaces.

The fact that the founder commented in approval is gold.

The solution, according to Sectigo's Chief Compliance Officer Tim Callan, is to automate certificate management — unsurprising considering the firm sells software that does just this.

In one fell swoop they managed to gobble up quite a lot of FOSS projects, triggering quite a lot of forks...

Mixing "firmware" with "easy with minimal experience" in the same sentence makes me cringe...

Cmon guys, it's Crowdstrike implementing the 4 day week.

Someone asked Copilot to come up with that text...

Right off the bat i read

One standout statistic was that projects with clear requirements documented before development started were 97 percent more likely to succeed. In comparison, one of the four pillars of the Agile Manifesto is "Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation."

You need clearly defined requirements to write a good user story. Documentation comes after.

However, while the Agile Manifesto might have its problems, those stem more from its implementation rather than the principles themselves. "We don't need a test team because we're Agile" is a cost-saving abdication of responsibility.

Precisely, once once have i worked in a company where agile was properly implemented and, yes, user stories were well documented and discussed before being developed. All others are just waterfall in disguise, or Fragile™.

However, while the Agile Manifesto might have its problems, those stem more from its implementation rather than the principles themselves. "We don't need a test team because we're Agile" is a cost-saving abdication of responsibility.

Random excerpts.

"Any bug has the potential of being a security issue at the kernel level."

Although the programmers examined RHEL 8.8 specifically, this is a general problem. They would have found the same results if they had examined SUSE, Ubuntu, or Debian Linux. Rolling-release Linux distros such as Arch, Gentoo, and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed constantly release the latest updates, but they're not used in businesses.

The proposed fix:

The team advocates for a shift toward using stable kernel branches from kernel.org for better security and bug management.

Woah, someone discovered fire.

The only marginally logical excuse i've heard for RTO is to justify rented office space.

The OS, not the PC.