Depends on how tech-savvy you are and what DE you like.

• You don’t like to tinker much, but want a system that just works with sane defaults? Mint it is
• You want to know how a Linux system works or might want to fine tune and put your own bits and pieces together? Debian

Those are the two I usually recommend. I don’t like Ubuntu, because Canonical has a history of enforcing its experiments on users and disregards them after some years. Fedora does that more subtle, but I’m not a fan of flatpaks and that you basically cannot find most of the programs I’m used to from other distros in the package manager.

In the end I’d say that most users should be more focused on the decision what desktop environment they want to use, because that influences your day-to-day work more than the distro (after you have set it up to your liking, of course).