Linux Mint is one of the most popular choice for beginners. Otherwise, you could also pick one of the most popular (includes Mint, but also Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.), since they are popular, it's has good support and likely to have fixed many issues already with most systems.
I use Ubuntu at work. It's pretty stable, user-friendly, and has a relatively easy adjustment period for someone coming from a Windows environment. It also has a ton of support through forums, blogs, and other things, so if you need to figure out a way to fix a problem or do something, there's usually some kind of result for it. I've used Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Suse, Manjaro, and Pop_OS! over the years on personal systems. I'm partial to Debian and its derivatives.
Any distro suggestions? I need something that's relatively newbie friendly and has good community support..
Linux Mint is one of the most popular choice for beginners. Otherwise, you could also pick one of the most popular (includes Mint, but also Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.), since they are popular, it's has good support and likely to have fixed many issues already with most systems.
I use Ubuntu at work. It's pretty stable, user-friendly, and has a relatively easy adjustment period for someone coming from a Windows environment. It also has a ton of support through forums, blogs, and other things, so if you need to figure out a way to fix a problem or do something, there's usually some kind of result for it. I've used Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Suse, Manjaro, and Pop_OS! over the years on personal systems. I'm partial to Debian and its derivatives.
i'm on PopOS which i think is a fork of linux mint
I've tried Mint Cinnamon, Mint xfce, OpenSuse Leap, and Devuan with SysV init, and so far Linux Mint Cinnamon has been my favorite.