I downloaded MINT onto a flash drive and boot from that.  It has Firefox already loaded so I can browse the Internet and it has LibreOffice already loaded too.  It found my printer without a problem and and it has Gimp for photo manipulation.
All in all for the average user it's all they need and it's faster than Windows 10 on my computer.  Plus it's free.  If there's a downside it's that the very people who'd most benefit from this are the same people who might not be able to get MINT and put it on their computer.