Linux Mint isn’t a bleeding edge distro like Arch, CachyOS and other current flavours of the month which means it’s more mature which make it both more stable and less likely to randomly come across issues that can cause it to break quite badly. It also has decently put together things like an “app store”. There is also a massive online community for support. For someone coming from Windows with no Linux experience it makes it easier to get to grips with and less likely something bad will happen that would put them off.
Linux Mint isn’t a bleeding edge distro like Arch, CachyOS and other current flavours of the month which means it’s more mature which make it both more stable and less likely to randomly come across issues that can cause it to break quite badly. It also has decently put together things like an “app store”. There is also a massive online community for support. For someone coming from Windows with no Linux experience it makes it easier to get to grips with and less likely something bad will happen that would put them off.