@pea I know that it gets a rep for being "super hard to install" but if the person you're recommending it to really is a technical minded person, it boils down to copy-pasting a few things out of a wiki. The reason I recommend it is because it has a huge software repository if you include the AUR, so there will be no mucking about with ppa's or fiddling with dependencies compiling from source. It also follows a KISS philosophy and has a really low memory footprint, which seems like it might interest the potential linux-convert