Just try few of these from live usb and pick what you like.

You can use Ventoy and just drag all your ISO images to it but creating few USBs is easiest option for beginners.

There is nothing bad about Debian/Debian based distros and I think that it is great option I started on Mint, tryed Manjaro and get back to Mint.

I use mint and it is great choice, I am not so techy and it just works on this machine.

I have similar machine, but I run Linux, and don’t have these problems. Not exactly configured just some profiles for different use cases.

It was eye-opening how it got faster and snappier after getting rid of windows. Most apps don’t need tinkering, just installing from repo for me.

Can I volunteer my matches. You know patch for comment section.