Looking for a linux distro

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I'd like to try distros out, as long they don't go all janky on my TV screen. Looking at playing video games and doing office type work

thanks

"Choosing Your First Linux Distro":

My preferred Linux is OpenSuSE Linux which I started using when it was SuSE LInux. I like the feel of using a large multi-user Linux.

My laptop has Fedora's SilverBlue on it. I tried installing OpenSuSE, but apparently HP doesn't like it.

When looking at Linux distributions, make sure you try out some of the immutable Linux operating systems. They should provide you with greater security than the regular Linux operating systems.

It depends how are your Linux/Unix skills; For start I'd really recommend Linux Mint

Linux Mint +1.
When I do a Linux Mint install, during the partitioning step, I chose to set the root partition as type BTRFS, not the default of ext4. This way, the Timeshift app can create and restore to BTRFS snapshots. These snapshots provide a mechanism of safety, somewhat akin to how an immutable distro provides a mechanism of safety/fallback (in case something goes really wrong, and you need to do a "roll-back").

I've been using Linux mint in this way for about 6 years. BTRFS has never once let me down. (I've also used BTRFS on fileservers, and love the subvolume snapshotting features, just saying.)

I am very happy with Debian! Solid, stable, not a Windows clone but intuitive for someone coming from Windows. I had to enlarge the swap partition from the default size to play more memory-intensive Steam games but everything worked really well once that was done.