Please read my comment in full:
I know this is a privacy centric forum, but the thread is discussing about beginner-friendly Linux distros.
Add: people are literally mentioning Linux Mint, which is also a fork of a fork. (I know about LMDE)
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See, this is the kind of comment that confuses the s**t out of me and makes me wanna give up, so I think I’m just gonna install Zorin because I do have to start somewhere and I definitely do not expect myself to get a perfect 10/10 privacy and security platform that intimately reflects my needs right out the box on the first try
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Sure, everyone starts in some place. Good luck!
I’ll just point that the Privacy Guide has a single page which is a quick read and may address or create important questions: Desktop/PC - Privacy Guides
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This is a good attitude to have and the point I wanted to make. Find something that works for you without so much of a headache. This is the beginning of a journey and you don’t need the most secure and most private setup. As you learn more and more you can advance the process.
Zorin is an ok place to to start of it seems like an understandable ecosystem.
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I think traditional is still the best, as it is most similar to other operating systems like Windows and macOS, and I think using atomic distros will just add on to what someone will have to learn.
I also think traditional distros for beginners are better than their atomic counterparts at the moment. Overall, I think atomic distros are still pretty immature, but I’ll have to see what changes in the next few years. For me, atomic doesn’t really have any benefits and just seems like a nuisance, but for something like Bazzite, it definitely makes sense why it is atomic.
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For people saying using container options like Distrobox (which is better than toolbx) is non-intuitive for beginners, can use GUIs like Distroshelf, BoxBuddyRS or Kontainer.
As a beginner, I can only say that it’s been like less than 2 months that I’ve been learning how to install software packages on Linux, and while this is obviously not the most difficult part about learning Linux, one has to admit that installing software on Linux is currently a hot mess.
For example, it was only yesterday that I figured out the main differences between installing a package from a distro repo vs auto-building it with Rust’s cargo install.
Anyway, my point is, I simply haven’t graduated to the level where I’m ready to fire up Distrobox (whether in CLI or GUI) and do some containerization. Honestly probably just mental inertia, but yeah
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If you want to install let’s say Discord, you can do easily via Flatpak.
Anything outside of that realm is an advanced thing already that no MacOS nor Windows make easy in any other way. 
Yes, you can install stuff on MacOS with Brew and the bizzilion of package managers on Linux distros but nobody expects you to go to some source code and build it locally.
At the same time, most people don’t need/care enough to look what is beyond a simple .exe or Apple/Android official store.
And, Windows doesn’t make installing any source code from Github more easy in any matter.
As for Distrobox, I never heard of it and I’m not even sure of what would be the point of such need so I guess that it is next level advanced and hence…shouldn’t be a “Linux is hard” kind of situation.
On Windows you also have situations where you just don’t have a tool for it, you just leave it dead. While if you’re a poweruser, you can go further and install some FOSS tool.
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Anyway, my point is, I simply haven’t graduated to the level where I’m ready to fire up Distrobox (whether in CLI or GUI) and do some containerization.
Distrobox is not necessary on atomic systems.
you can install stuff on MacOS with Brew
And on linux 
Yeah see, I’m super confused about things 
I also just had to edit this post because I read your tag “Secureblue” as “Silverblue” andddd that’s not the same thing lol