[ale] easy first distro for a non-linux person?

[J.M. Taylor]

Greetings Ale

I'm trying to help out someone who is not an admin set up a linux box to
run a small, inter-office application that she's going to write.

I'll be helping her set up the server so I can lock it down, but after
that it will be hers to manage.  So what are your favourite distros for
total newbies who want a graphical interface to manage users and software
packages?  I'm interested in ease of use followed closely by not
flagrantly ignoring basic security as much as possible with an Xwindows
environment.

RH is the distro I know best, but from the command line, so I don't know
how its user and package management apps compare to other distros. If
there's something easier to use I'd like to hear about it.

TIA
jenn


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