I’d probably say mint, reasonably newbie friendly. I’ve not tried Bazzite but I hear good things about it.

I currently run Arch btw, it’s not what I’d recommend as a first distro.

Anyway don’t over think it. Get something easy up and running and after a while get curious or annoyed and try something else.

Hope you have an AMD gpu. Been a while since I had a Nvidia but they were twice as annoying to deal with some 7 years ago.