I started with Zoro which is a windows look alike, tried mint and a few other distros but ultimately landed on Fedora.
Fedora has been great and I haven't been tempted to leave since trying it out a few years ago.
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Pop_OS. Everything just works great out of the box.
Alternatively, don't use Pop_OS. I installed it on an ex's laptop because it was easy but it'd have all the same problems as Ubuntu without the helpful diagnostic tools and extensive documentation. Hers messed up far more than my Arch install
I use Nobara which comes with drivers for Nvidia and stuff just works. It's very noob friendly.
I had several drives in my PC, so I wiped a small one and just installed a few different distros and figured out what I liked. I ended up sticking with nobara with KDE.
Honestly, I recommend everyone without existing Linux experience to use Fedora: it's reasonable modern (nice for, e.g. gaming), while also not being a full rolling release model like Arch (which needs expertise to fix in case something breaks). It's also reasonably popular, meaning you will find enough guidance in case something does break.