For an initial distro, go with Ubuntu's Xubuntu. Package management is much easier, documentation is plentiful, and 99% of the time problems were hit on before by others.
After a few years, if you get the inkling, switch to a source-based distro like Gentoo. This gets your hands a bit dirtier as you'll be knee-deep in the command line, recompiling kernels. This gets you more deeper experience.
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For an initial distro, go with Ubuntu's Xubuntu. Package management is much easier, documentation is plentiful, and 99% of the time problems were hit on before by others.
After a few years, if you get the inkling, switch to a source-based distro like Gentoo. This gets your hands a bit dirtier as you'll be knee-deep in the command line, recompiling kernels. This gets you more deeper experience.