Endeavour (Arch based). Comes with a few more "batteries included" than base Arch, including a good graphical installer, sensible defaults, several nice desktop

Endeavour (Arch based). Comes with a few more "batteries included" than base Arch, including a good graphical installer, sensible defaults, several nice desktop environment options, and a package manager wrapper thing that helps take care of Nvidia driver installation with no more fuss than any other package upgrade. And Arch itself is just pleasant. Packages with as few downstream modifications as possible, reasonable defaults, organized and thoughtful system layout, systemd integration everywhere but without forcing you to use it as anything other than an init and logging system. I'm sure the experience is different on a laptop, but on a desktop PC, Endeavour has been the lowest-fuss Linux OS I have tried and I have no plans to switch to a different one. Helpful community forum too.