This should help as well:
I’ve used various Linux-based distros since 1999. It’s a long list, but Slackware and Manjaro are on the top of my list. I used Arch for 6 years and had to spend too much time fixing issues instead of using my computer for what I needed to do - like work!
I like rolling-release distros, and Manjaro gives me that without being as troublesome as Arch and other Arch-based distros (although I have not spent too much time testing Garuda, Endeavour etc.)
Another commenter mention issues with Nvidia drivers - and that has been my only pain point in recent times. Rolling-release distros will be more prone to buggy Nvidia driver releases than other distros.
So as a beginner, if a rolling-release distro suits you, Manjaro is one of the best out there.
Also check out Distro Chooser:
Also check out Distro Chooser:
I tried distro chooser. Personally, the sheer number of distros offered in reply to my answers would be just as confusing to a newbie as not going to Distro Chooser.
I did the questionaire as myself, and as someone like my partner (but a bit more knowledgable, see below)
Also the questions, and the framing assumes the user understands Linuxy things… In other words I could not have answered many of the questions, when I first started using Linux.
I think folks are just too helpful… you’ll never learn to swim if you don’t just get in the water… just learning to do an installation, then snapshots and backups… it matters not what you first install because it’s only a 5 minute job to wipe it out and start again.
As always, I suggest a Ventoy USB, then a couple of ISO’s (with various desktops - Linux Mint with Cinnamon, maybe MATE, then a Kubuntu and a Gnome of your choice.
This morning, had an interesting discussion with a Gentoo user who complained they couldn’t separate the LibreOffice components (because Gentoo is ‘minimal’) and then proceeded to ask the difference between vector and ‘other’ graphics editors.
Give a child a pen, don’t tell them ‘this is for drawing’ or ‘this is for writing’…
This is one of the better “distro choosers” I’ve encountered.
If one isn’t sufficiently informed after careful scrutiny of distributions listed at Distrowatch, then there must be a deeper problem.
Nonetheless, individual research is probably the key to finding a distribution that might suit one’s needs; from observation, this is something fewer and fewer people are either capable of, or willing to undertake.
Then there’s the popular term “distro-hopping” – while it may seem a fair way to familiarise oneself with many distributions over a short period, the reality is that most “jump ship” as soon as they encounter something either not understood, or “not the same as Windows”.
Missing some basic knowledge on creating .desktop launchers manually, I’d guess – not that this seems uncommon among newer users, especially.
No, complaining that they can’t install LibreOffice Writer without installing the whole bundle, and feeling angry because ‘Gentoo is minimalist’. I mean - there are lots of USER flags to set, but LibreOffice isn’t a group of separate apps and never has been.
Though, while I think it should be obvious (in hindsight), I will add to this, that I really recommend you put /home on a different partition. If you come to the conclusion after a while, that this distro actually wasn’t “it” for you, or want to do some other large change that’d be easier by reinstalling, for example, things are a lot smoother that way. I figured this out after third reinstall and copying stuff back and forth. 
With a 250GB SSD it’s not worth losing the flexibility of using that space… and setting up your install to suit distribution hopping then can’t be reverted for a permanent install.
I prefer simply to link home directories - so as my Audio folder grew I moved most of the content to my primary storage and linked it back, also with Music, Pictures and Video leaving the SSD with 50GB free most of the time.
Fortunately when I started using Linux, Mandrake did that for you as the default install.
I thought it was such a brilliant Idea, I’ve done it that way on every Linux I’ve installed.
I don’t understand what you mean with “flexibility” here. 
Could you elaborate that?
And for me having /home and /var on their own partitions is the norm and the permanent install. I once messed up and had the logfiles fill the whole partition the kernel was on (don’t ask). The kernel really didn’t like that. At all. So it’s a precaution from me to separate the kernel and its buddies on a separate partition altogether. I just stuff everything on a 3 TB HDD. I’ve planned on moving most system stuff on an SSD soon, once I bother to get rid of the Windows 10 on it.
Or they try to be.
What I was expecting, when I did the questionnaire was a short list of recommended distros, with, probably, a short explanation of why I should try it.
Instead what I got was a long list of what the questionnaire creators assumed are the main Linux distros, with explanations of why I should not try this one or that one, interspersed with explanations of why this one or that other one might be worth a try.
Totally confusing… basically Too Much Information.
Then there are the questions, which even when one indicate they don’t know Linux are the same ‘Linuxy’ knowledge assuming questions.