I have very little experience with Linux, but I'm also on the fence to switch from Windows. When I looked what distro is good for beginners, I indeed was referred to Linux Mint or POP! OS, but also Manjaro. Manjaro is based on Arch Linux and has rolling updates (as I understand it) This seems like a good idea to me, but I could be wrong.
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