@pathief Mint doesn't support Wayland well. Haven't tried it in a while, so I might be totally wrong.

Go with Fedora GNOME/KDE.

@fhein Mint (personal opinion - not a big fan), Fedora KDE, Ubuntu (not a fan).

Heck, even an immutable distro like Bazzite or NixOS.

NixOS has quite a learning curve, so even if your son wants to, he'll have to learn his way out.

@Doodz no harm in switching. Mint offers great GUI tools. Almost everything that can be done on Mint can be done on Ubuntu and vice-versa.

If you find Mint's GUI simpler go with it. Happy exploration.