I did recommend Mint (although I use EndeavourOS myself), but he’s not interested anymore.

It probably didn’t help that I recently recommended him to buy Nvidia rather than AMD for a recent upgrade, because Nvidia had lower power requirements, and I don’t his his PSU would have been able to handle the comparable AMD.

My son also picked Bazzite, which I hadn’t heard of before. Unfortunately he didn’t like it and it back to Windows again.

Your argument is that Russian state media is more reliable than a truly independent and thoroughly sources platform with a stellar reputation for quality and accuracy? That is what you want us to believe?

Because nobody is going to believe that.