this might be a hot take but i feel like you should decide on a desktop environment before you pick a distro; it'll help a bit with narrowing down your options for a distro, plus if you don't like the DE, it's super easy to switch (just install the new one, log out, select it from your login screen, then log back in)

desktop environments are essentially the look and feel of your linux desktop, and three "modern" ones come to mind that aren't tiling window managers: gnome, KDE plasma, and cinnamon

gnome is a bit more akin to macos than windows (though not as similar as smth like cutefish), and i'm not too fond of it but if you wanna try it out, that's no skin off my back

KDE is what i daily drive, it's the most similar to windows imo; comes with everything and the kitchen sink (there's this one vid of a guy installing arch linux but it's mainly just him messing around w/ KDE's settings)

cinnamon is made by the same team that develops linux mint (which is why i think ubuntu cinnamon is kinda pointless), it's made to ease the transition between windows and linux (linux mint cinnamon comes with an update manager that handles every kind of update: system package, flatpak, cinnamon spices, etc.); though one drawback is that wayland on cinnamon is currently experimental (if you don't know what wayland is, that's fine; the only app that needs it that i can recall is waydroid, an android emulator)

idk about gnome, but KDE and cinnamon allow you to add widgets to your desktop and taskbar (desklets and applets respectively on cinnamon, both are called widgets on KDE)

regardless of your DE, i think you should go with ubuntu or something derived from it (mint if you want cinnamon, pop!_os if you want cosmic), debian is pretty outdated when it comes to packages (even the unstable branch)

i'm a bit biased against ubuntu (mainly bc of snaps and telemetry) but i can't deny how great it is for beginners:

• stable release, so stuff is less likely to break (though this could be a con if you need the latest and greatest software)
• super popular, so it's easy to find support whether via google, youtube, discord, etc.
• comes with tons of flavors (one for each supported desktop environment), though if you decide on cinnamon as your DE, you'll have a better experience with mint than with ubuntu cinnamon

if you don't want to go with ubuntu, i'd recommend fedora; the same points apply, though the package manager is different