>>129601
I think right now Mint is the preferred newbie distro, so you can give it a shot. If you have an external or secondary drive of some sort I'd use that for files initially if you do want to toy around with different distros, because then you can hop easily without needing to worry about losing files. Some other contenders would be Arch, Ubuntu, or any other that has a large community since having a community (especially with a wiki such as with Arch) makes figuring things out a much smoother process. Ultimately a Linux distro is just the package manager and DE you use, and many will give you a DE choice anyways, so I wouldn't fall for any super niche meme distros, you will want something with a lot of people in case you run into problems