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I recommend ZorinOS for new-new people.
I settled on EndeavourOS.
NixOS is tempting me, but ultimately I don't believe it would be an improvement for me rn. All I do is yay from time to time to update my system. It just works.
Honorary mentions to Fedora and OpenSUSE, which I used, but they demanded more input from me. On EndeavourOS everything just works, so I enjoy it the most.
NixOS is great and you'd probably see benefits from using it even if your usage is fairly simple to be honest (and potentially some challenges as well, haha). If nothing else easy rollbacks are a win on the rare occasion when a system update borks something. That said, there is a learning curve, and if what you currently have is working for you and you don't want to switch... Then you don't have to switch :).