Comment by unethical_ban

edit: after "many" years.

What are peoples' thoughts on which style of distro is best to hand over to a non-techie user for the least amount of hand-holding?

I re-install so much that I don't know how easy it is, or how the distros prompt, when something like Debian Stable or Fedora need to update to the next version. With Arch, you constantly get the "updates ready" and it is always fresh.