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Lots of good suggestions there.
I'll also add AntiX. (I, non-techie, started with SuSe (over 2 decades ago.))
Or if you're a bit wacky like my uncle, Puppy (~ boy I really did not expect him to pick puppy as his distro, when I showed him several, but he's been on it over a decade now, utterly loves it.)
You may not initially be techie, but I have heard some users started with arch (or artix or other non-systemd forks of arch), gentoo, GuixSD, or NixOS, and learn, just by following the documentation, becoming more techie. I think some even went as far as starting with LFS. O_O It may seem daunting at first, but it's not actually hard, is easy, just takes some time and attention. And, makes things easier in the long run.