A vote for Linux Mint
I started looking into Linux a year or so ago on the run-up to the death of XP, as I have 3 old machines that used XP and were not really capable of upgrading. With help from my brother-in-law, I went for Debian on one machine, and played around with that for a while. Subsequently, for the other two I went for Linux Mint Debian Cinnamon, which installed more easily and recognised more of the components without intervention from me.