Comment Distribution Installer (Score 3, Insightful) 283
Wouldn't a special unified USB installer with nice, clean, easy interface and rich information about beginner/advanced linux distributions that then directly points to their installer, downloads it and continues installing, solve this?
Say top 10 distros for beginners, and so on.
Then you only need to point towards that installer, instead of any distribution, so the new user can read and chose the best linux distribution for him/her self.
Sure, the risk would be distributions of these installers, but with a good common name like "Linux Distribution Installer", it would'nt be so bad to distinguish.