Which model Ryzen? For 300.00 ( minus OS, monitor and peripherals) one could build a pretty good Desktop using Ryzen 3 2200G.
First stop was Ubuntu. I easily got Ubuntu working, only to find out that Electron-based applications wouldn’t work. Turns out there may have been a change to a GNU library that broke Electron.
That can happen.
One thing I’ve noticed doing Windows 10 support for Mom & Grandad is that many issues are caused by purchasing the cheapest PC available. With Windows 10, I’m seeing less virus & malware issues. The biggest problem for Mom & Grandad has been Windows Update. My experience, your mileage may vary from mine.
Thus it may be best to build your own. I have had no problems with Windows Update under W.10, thanks be to God, but I have them delayed for up to 35 days (Start>Windows Update>Advanced...
If the efforts spent to create all these distributions were spent to create a solid single Linux system, they’d have winner.
I agree, yet Ubuntu was kinda supposed to be that as I recall. Free-dom is good, but without a model of what the goal should be and working to that consensus under leadership then you can have a lot of good players but not a great team.
If there was a substantial consensus on what a OS should easily enable the user to do, and the best and worse aspects of each OS was, including Windows, and with a great degree of easy optional customization and increased functionality (as with Firefox before it went to Quantum) and a directed (and funded) team work working towards the goal of creating this, then I believe there could be a Linux Desktop OS that would at least surpass the Macintosh share.