Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20151005011200

I have an old dinosaur of a laptop (well, old-ish, early windows 7 era) that has been sitting around wasting space, decided to switch t over to linux for the hell of it (getting a macbook for school in a couple months, got a good windows ten laptop, figured I would complete the OS trifecta). Anybody got suggestions for what a first time linux user should start with? 