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.
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'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.