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There is no 1 best answer to that.

There are literally hundreds of distributions. There are probably 10 main branches to the tree of distributions. Many of the less well known are optimized versions derived from the best 10 or so.

Here is a pretty complete site listing most of them

Distributions (versions) https://www.linuxlinks.com/links/Distributions/

Software (applications, almost all free) https://www.linuxlinks.com/links/Software/

User groups USA (might be help locally) https://www.linuxlinks.com/links/UserGroups/North_America/United_States/

I’ve probably used 10-12 of them. Currently I’m using an XFCE (GUI) version of Debian. One of the more complete distributions.

Ubuntu Linux is very popular, it is a derivative of Debian.

Xubuntu is a XFCE (light GUI) version. I liked it a lot.

Most of the linux installers are easier to setup than Windows. It has not always been that easy but last 10 years made huge advances.

If you like, send me freep mail message and tell me what your area of interest in computers is. And whether you use a laptop or a desktop computer.

You do not have to have the newest and fastest computer to make linux work.

Dave K.