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A fellow sysadmin furry I see

Linux mint is a good, “click first” distro that won’t break without root + will be easy for her to use. For something with a more modern desktop and more recent updates, Bazzite is really good at just working and (in my experience) has never broken

Xfce next major release will have Wayland support so no need to even change!