Recommendation from a guy who started on Arch (bad mistake). I never dabbled in Ubuntu/Mint/PopOS/whatever so I don't know how to recommend those, so take that very large grain of salt.

• You want Windows/MacOS but the same
  • Debian/Devuan
    • Pick an image that comes with a default desktop environment of your choosing.
    • Once you figure out the package manager it's easy sailing.
      • Caveat emptor, haven't had to set up Nvidia on this.
• You can read instructions and follow them
  • Void Linux
    • Nvidia is trivial to set up.
    • Like Arch, but stable.
    • No AUR, the official repositories are just good instead.
  • Alpine Linux
    • Uses musl libc.
      • Has no software because musl libc.
        • Flatpak and other runtimes can get around this, thankfully.
    • Busybox sucks, replace with coreutils immediately.
    • Install the docs metapackage if you want to have any clue what you're doing.
• You want to learn, maybe after you already had some experience
  • OpenBSD
    • The best documentation on the planet.
    • Not Linux, but a lot of the stuff you learn here can be applied to Linux.
    • Try to avoid 3rd party utilities and instead rely on the base system as much as possible.
    • No modern Nvidia driver, not even nouveau.
      • Display should at the very least still work with the vga(4) or efifb(4) drivers, but you'll have no acceleration.
  • Gentoo
    • Don't go too hard on the useflags or kernel config unless you want to have a bad time.
    • Honestly should be in the previous category if it wasn't so easy to footgun yourself with one bad command or configuration.
      • This is where the learning part comes in
    • Stage 4 tarball is cheating.