I also recommend Mint. It uses the Cinnamon DE which is by far the most user-friendly and "stable" desktop. The mintinstall which is quicker and smoother than gnome-software. It has the kernel switcher setting, which I must admit did not seem appealing to me before but I had a problem with the kernel recently and now I have more respect for Mint for adding that feature. They have a huge community support and a huge team that develops Mint. They removed every bit of Snap and Flatpak completely, thus, making their OS faster.
I will be posting a feedback on Zorin OS after a few days when I will be completing exactly 3 months without Zorin OS because that would give me enough time to decide whether Zorin OS has reached the mark where all other distros are.