Debian (Testing) I used it for a good month, and man was I disappointed. Only some things are actually up to date and packaged correctly. The nvidia drivers don't load the drm module because it's not called nvidia-drm on Debian (testing) it's called nvidia-current-drm. Also apt is the worst package manager

I've never used Mint so wouldn't want to comment but it does seem to get a lot of praise and I can't see why.

EndeavorOS would be my vote. Arch with a GUI installer and horrible theme.

I'm using ZorinOS with Windows 11 Pro. It's good enough for everything I do.

Mint is hugely over-recommended to new users imo. The fact that it doesn't have an option for a DE like Gnome 3 or KDE just kinda sucks at teaching newbies what to expect. Cinnamon also feels kinda jank in my opinion, looks old and unattractive.

I think Elementary OS a bit. It's not bad necessarily (although I do think they're a bit over-aggressive about monetization which I don't really like) but I always see people talk it up about how functional and beautiful-looking it is, whereas when I tried it it just seemed like a pretty standard Ubuntu-based distro themed to look like a Mac.

Unless there's something amazing in there that I just didn't catch on to, but it just didn't really click for me.