simple,teach your mate to use online wallet and dont tell him about bitcoin mining or bitcoin core wallet,its too weight for bandwith.
started with bitcoin should not start with mining or other work related with bitcoin,just tell them about bitcoin concept and faucet.
But if you do this, explain that he is not controlling his own wallet and is trusting that the online wallet provider is both trustworthy and competent against hackers. Experience has shown that trusting online wallets is risky.
On the flip side, any lite client wallet (such as Electrum) MUST have properly secured backups prior to use. Otherwise he risks losing his bitcoin in a hardware crash or similar event (such as a house fire - in which case there should be a remote backup). Teach new bitcoiners now, so it's not something they learn the hard way.
And for goodness sake, make sure he understands that "p#ssword", "123123123" etc. are not good passwords for his wallet, whatever he chooses.