I would say for a out of the box and for a beginner is mint way easier than arch. Try to explain your grandma what a kernel is and how modules work in there. Mint autoinstalls every printer driver and co. Arch doesn't. I use arch btw at home but I would never install it for a beginner
Make shure that your distro is relatively up to date when I tryed to install graphene from KDE neon (ubuntu lts) it won't work because my my tools were out of date
Lite xl (ide)
KDE connect (file transfaring)
KDEnlive (video editing software)
Mpv (media player)
Librewolf(better out of the box experience than Firefox
)
I don't care about cookies add-on (Firefox addon)
Gimp or paint.net
Obs(video capture)
libreoffice(office stuff)
Nomacs(image viewer)
BC uninstaller
Alt drag (moving winows)
What I honestly miss the most is my window manager/compositor hyprland
I just want to use a email provider who I can trust