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.
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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 got my slacks on with dramatic music Slackware Linux! crowd gasps
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.