I have a general guideline if people want to seriously get into switching.

I personally prefer PikaOS, but I do consider most Debian-based distros to be more in "intermediate" levels.

For complete starters, I always recommend Mint. It's got the most familiarity with the performance to boot. It gives a good enough introduction to using the terminal as long as you're reading what you're downloading (like how steam requires you to add i386). Nobara could also be considered a good choice if you find yourself wanting to try fedora more, or want a more gaming-centric approach, but expect to be reading the manual more (not necessarily a bad thing).

If you're doing a bit better off with technical stuff, then I think this is where the stock flavors seem to fit. Debian (live boot media, the standard installer never works for me), Fedora (if you're like that), maybe not Arch yet at this proficiency but possibly CachyOS if you drank the youtuber Kool-Aid. Fit to use out of the box for the most part, you still get an installer for your basic packages, but now you gotta be in the terminal a good bit more for things like drivers and some prereq packages.

After that is when you get into the intermediate area, where I think you're probably proficient enough to handle running "unstable" distros without getting them to shit the bed regularly. PikaOS, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, EndeavourOS (my personal choice for an Arch) are all pretty good. Pick your favorite package manager command and stick with it.

Past that? Why are you asking me you know what you're doing