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IT guy here, I mostly work with Windows, but have daily driven Linux in the past and am planning on switching back to Linux when Windows 10 goes EOL.
Anyway, here are my thoughts.
Ubuntu - simple to use, but has a history of doing their own thing to the detriment of the user. Currently pushing their own alternative to Flatpaks, Snaps, which is built around centralizing apps around Canonicals servers.
Mint - similar to Ubuntu in terms of use, based on Debian, well known and seemingly working well. Good starting point for everyone.
Fedora Linux - easy to use, more standard Linux than Ubuntu, based on Red Hat, focused more on using the latest tech when compared with Mint and Ubuntu.
Manjaro - for the more experienced users, based on Arch, modern, but a bit more unstable than the other distributions mentioned here.
There are other's but few that I have actual experience with and can be called newbie friendly, so it would be unfair to add distributions I don't have experience with.
If you choose Arch, you can say "I use Arch btw", from time to time, in unrelated conversations. That is a plus and should be considered.
This is true, but I see "I use Mint btw" appearing more and more in the wild during the last year.
I use Mint btw
What do you think of a PopOS, sort of leaning there just based on statistics
It is based on Ubuntu, so I expect it to be easy to use, I don't know if it uses Snaps nor not, if it does, I would avoid it.
It feels pretty Mac, if that's your jam
Sorta is
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS sounds like your best starting OS.
PopOS is very old I would recommend against it to anyone not already stuck with it.
PopOS was only initially released in 2017, making it one of the newer distributions. It is actively developed and really pushing the needle in the community. It is a great option. Don’t know what distro you’re actually thinking of, but it isn’t Pop.
Let me explain, the current version of pop is based on the 22.04 branch of Ubuntu. They've been in dev hell trying to update to the 24.04 branch.
As a consequence it doesn't have full support of more modern hardware and you can run into libc issues trying to run precompiled binaries.
Fair enough, but assuming you’re using any of several package managers, seems like libc shouldn’t be an issue. Nevertheless, I clearly misunderstood you. Anyway, alpha 7 for 24.04 is out now.
My fault, I should have been more clear.
Yeah, I've mostly noticed the issue working on projects with people sharing builds.