I was a Debian person for nearly a decade, but during the 2010's it just became unusable. Super old kernel, along with a number of packages -- like you couldn't get a non-EOL PHP in apt for a year or something for example
Fedora with Gnome especially on newer hardware. Fedora has far fewer issues in my humble personal experience when it comes to hardware less than five years old. Gnome because trying to use something that looks like something you've used before but isn't just adds extra confusion. No need for Pantheon or Cinnamon.