@piezoelectron It's a bad idea to give someone a "Linux PC", as that'll just panic() on boot.

You should be glad to give freedom to someone by giving them a GNU/Linux PC.

Trisquel: https://trisquel.info/ is an excellent choice as it's easy to use, note that some hardware will refuse to work (although that's usually only really 802.11ac Wi-Fi cards and decent external or internal 802.11n ones are rather cheap).