There aren't that many to ponder over the idea of recommending someone for a daily use. For beginners, Fedora is the perfect choice. For people with programming background, Arch. Ubuntu was sane sometime ago, not anymore because of the bloat it ships by default
Last time I tried another round of "let's install the most recent versions of popular distros on random laptops I have", Fedora was the most finicky about hardware. As in literally wouldn't even boot into live CD on one of said laptops, and had troubles with graphics on others.
The thing that worked every time? For the past decade or so, it had consistently been Linux Mint for me.
